Actor and manufacturer Noel Clarke has accused the writer of the Dad or mum of getting “smashed my lifestyles for years” as he gave proof at his Prime Court docket libel trial.
The megastar of Physician Who and Kidulthood started his testimony on Monday.
The 49-year-old is suing Dad or mum Information and Media (GNM) for libel over a sequence of articles from 2021 and 2022 that incorporated allegations of sexually beside the point behaviour.
Clarke denies the allegations, whilst GNM is protecting its reporting as being each true and within the public passion.
Requested about his alleged beside the point sexual behaviour against an actress who seemed in a movie he was once concerned with, he was fairly emotional and tearful, telling the Dad or mum’s barrister Gavin Millar KC: “They have got smashed my lifestyles for years with this garbage. You recognize what you might be doing. You are making me ill, I’d now not do that.”
Mr Millar requested Mr Clarke about an allegation that whilst running on Physician Who, he made an beside the point sexual advice to a feminine gown assistant.
He responded: “I do not needless to say incident, I do not bear in mind the girl in query. So I say it did not occur.”
Mr Millar requested: “It did not occur or you do not commit it to memory?”
Mr Clarke responded: “It did not occur.”
He was once additionally requested about his interactions with a girl whom he labored with within the run-up to a selected venture, the place it was once alleged that he bodily driven his frame towards her in a sexual manner, and groped her.
Mr Clarke spoke back announcing that he had due to this fact had messages from the girl over time, including that this proves that her allegations have been absolute nonsense.
He mentioned: “I am sitting right here having sworn at the Bible, and I am telling you she’s mendacity.”
He’s because of proceed giving proof till Wednesday.
The case is scheduled to final six weeks.
