Kim Woodburn has opened up for the first time about being physically and sexually abused by her father during childhood, speaking in an emotionally charged interview on ‘Loose Women’ this week.

The 74 year old presenter and recent ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ contestant appeared on ITV’s magazine programme ‘Loose Women’ on Tuesday (February 28th).

Kim WoodburnKim Woodburn revealed sexual and physical abuse from her father when she was a child

“My father was a Royal Marine. He was physically abusive. He would hit me with carpet brushes,” she said during a segment in which the panel was discussing how parents shape children’s personalities. The abuse also turned sexual, which happened she was “very young”.

Fellow panellist Janet Street-Porter asked her whether she told her mother, or whether she believed her. “I didn't tell her,” Woodburn replied. “We didn't talk about those things.”

The expert cleaner and former TV presenter admitted that her mother’s attitude was almost as harmful as her father’s, taking the form of emotional distance. “She used to say to me, ‘If I'd have known what you would have been like, I would have sent you back’.”

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On how this affected her, Woodburn said: “It never leaves you. I am 74 now, but I have a great life. I often see lovely families when I'm out and think about how good the parents are.”

Ten years ago, she told The Mirror that her stepfather later abused her while under the influence of alcohol, after her parents had split up.

“You can't shrug off all those years of neglect and brutality. I may put on a front but inside I'm angry - and I think I always will be,” she said back then.

“I was abused for as long as I can remember... From when I was two and a half or three years old. There were beatings and drunkenness. I could never understand why it was happening to me. They never laid a finger on my sister. It hurt deeply when I would see a mother kiss her little girl. I'd think, ‘nobody's ever kissed me’.”

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