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David Walliams is speaking out.
After The Guardian and ITV published a wide-ranging exposé accusing the former Britain’s Got Talent judge of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, grooming and abusing his power to sexually prey on women and teenagers as young as 15, he broke his silence to vehemently deny the allegations.
“Looking back, I realize that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with,” Walliams, 55, said in a Nov. 10 statement to the outlets, which joined forces for a three-year joint investigation into the accusations made against him. “I realize I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.”
“Whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did,” the comedian continued. “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.” (The age of consent in the U.K. is 16.)
The article was published earlier on Nov. 10, days after a judge rejected Walliams’s injunction to prevent its publication. (Walliams, whose attorney said in court he had attempted suicide twice in the months leading up to the publication, per The Guardian, was seeking psychiatric treatment.) Multiple women—who were identified with pseudonyms after agreeing to speak with the publications under the condition of anonymity—accused Walliams of being “predatory” and “pushy” during the alleged interactions beginning in 2003.
Two of his accusers alleged that they met the children’s book author when they were minors, including a woman identified as Alex, who said she was 15 when she met him at an autograph signing in 2004 where she gave him her cover letter in hopes of exploring a comedy writing career, according to The Guardian.
Alex alleged that she and Walliams exchanged multiple emails—which were included in the publication—and occasionally spoke on the phone for two years. She said that he suggested that he could help her succeed in the comedy world.
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By 17, she said that they were having sex. “I think I was groomed, 100 percent,” she told The Guardian. “We met when I was 15 and he was promising to help me and was a figure of authority and someone that I looked to for guidance and help.”
Another woman, referred to as Jade, also alleged she was 15 when she had met Walliams. She said that after the then-36-year-old reached out to her on MySpace in 2007—which Jade said clearly showed her date of birth—he invited her to his home, where he kissed her.
Other accounts—ITV and The Guardian cited speaking with 30 sources with first-hand knowledge of his behavior—were from women between 18 and early 20s who alleged Walliams tried to use his fame and wealth to coerce them into sex.
One such accuser, Sarah, 18, alleged that Walliams took an interest in her after meeting him during filming for Britain’s Got Talent, according to The Guardian. He eventually invited the starstruck teen to his London home, with her alleging that he attempted to have sex with her while she was drunk and unable to walk properly, but her friend intervened. She said she and her friend ultimately slept in a spare bedroom.
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Walliams’ attorney emphasized that his client denied any wrongdoing with all of the women, also refuting Sarah’s allegation that he got her “drunk to take advantage of her.”
E! News has reached out to Walliams’ reps and HarperCollins UK for comment and has not yet heard back.
Unspecified allegations were previously made against Walliams—who shares a son with ex Lara Stone—by at least five female employees at his publisher HarperCollins in December 2025, per The Guardian.
The company ultimately dropped him, telling The Telegraph at the time, “After careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams.”
“The author is aware of this decision,” the statement continued. “HarperCollins takes employee wellbeing extremely seriously and has processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns. To respect the privacy of individuals, we do not comment on internal matters.”
Walliams’s agent told the outlet in a statement that his client “strongly denies that he has behaved inappropriately.”
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