London: Two women have accused the late British broadcaster Clement Freud of abusing them as children in a television documentary due to be broadcast on Wednesday.
Freud, who was a writer broadcaster, celebrity chef and member of parliament before he died in 2009, was accused of abuse that took place in the 1940s to 1970s.
One woman Sylvia Woosley told the ITV documentary “Exposure: Abused & Betrayed” that Freud had molested her from the age of 10 to 19.
“He had a certain power over me which I didn’t understand. It destroyed something in me that broke, and I suppose it’s affected my behaviour all my life,” she said.
A second anonymous woman told ITV Freud had groomed her as a teenager when he was a member of parliament, and raped her in her parents’ home when she was 18.
Freud’s widow, Jill Freud, in a statement said, “I am shocked, saddened and profoundly sorry for what happened,” she said.
