David Walliams has been accused by multiple women of grooming them when they were teenagers, including one woman who says the comedian tried to persuade her to share his bed when she was 18.
Lilly Creightmore said she met Walliams while attending a live filming of Little Britain. She told news organisations that, because of difficulties at home, she stayed at his flat and slept on the sofa.
Ms Creightmore claimed Walliams repeatedly asked her to sleep in his bed. “He would plead with me to share a bed with him and paw at me, trying to make me feel sorry for him,” she said.
She added: “He definitely crossed the line physically in moments, when I was young, trying to coerce me into sleeping with him.”
Lawyers for Walliams said he regarded Ms Creightmore as a close friend and was “mortified” that she believed he had groomed her. He denies the allegation, as well as denying that he targeted her because she was young and vulnerable.
Walliams also insists that he did not say or do anything inappropriate.
