Former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Iain Lee, the star of the scout group, bravely admitted to being sexually abused by the leaders of his alleged assassins as a child.
The 51-year-old broadcaster claims the scout leader told him to strip naked when he was just nine years old and has heartbreaking details about how he allegedly abused sexually. Ian claims that he was instructed to “jump up and down” while being thrown tennis balls at his unclothed body. Ian claims that Ian and other scouts group members were instructed to “roll around in mud” without wearing any clothes.
The former Eleven O’Clock show host made a special trip to New Forest, Hants, where the young boys’ parents stayed at home while the former Eleven O’Clock show host was in charge of their care. Ian claims that the leaders ‘tried’ the children by promising that they would spend the majority of their time inside and outside the hut. According to Ian, the leaders also informed the group that their parents “knew” about the circumstances and had agreed to them in an effort to stop them from expressing their disapproval of what had transpired.
Ian revealed the sexual abuse he claims he was subjected to as a child by his scout leaders in his 2018 Channel 5 documentary, Me and My Mental Health, but the broadcaster has since shared even more wrenching details about how much abuse he suffered and how it has affected him as an adult. Ian, who was at the time, acknowledged that the horrific event had left him depressed and that considering suicide was a possibility.
In an effort to inspire other children who attended the same scouts group to come forward and share their experiences, and hopefully finally expose the sexual abusers, Ian has made the decision to go into more detail about his sad story with his 18,400 subscribers on his YouTube channel. Ian claims that he felt “made an exception of” because he was younger than the majority of the other boys in the group in the late seventies.
During the New Forest camping trip, Ian says that this became obvious. The organisers instructed the boys to strip naked while throwing tennis balls, and we had to jump as high as we could, as quickly as we could to get these balls. Naked”, he said in a YouTube video posted on his channel.
Sharing further harrowing details, in the video which has amassed over 35, 000 views, he added: “We were ordered to turn around and pick up these balls, bend over and pick up the balls when they fell on the floor. These balls were thrown quite forcefully, which caused some to hurt, but more frequently than not they were thrown and fell onto the floor, where we were instructed to jump up and get as many as possible. We were young children naked, not in our underpants.
“After you were watched by at least one or two members of the organizing crew once you had caught the ball enough times in groups of four or five, you would then go off and take a shower.” They gave you instructions on how to lather up, and they would do it for you if you didn’t do it well enough. What appeared to be a happy relief was when you were then instructed to put on your pyjamas.
The TV star also recalled how the group of young boys were “encouraged” to strip naked while out and about. Before the scout leaders demanded that the boys “jump up and down and roll in the mud,” Ian recalls how the boys were instructed to remove their clothes before being instructed to jump into a stream and a boggy field.
In his video, Ian added:” This was the one time I stood up to them and I can remember as a nine-year-old boy I was absolutely terrified. When they initially encouraged me to strip off, they later told me to do so, and when they realized it wasn’t going to happen, they bullied, teased, and belittled me, I remember looking at the floor and not saying anything. I only experienced fear and shame. I was nine. “
Before cutting off the video, Ian described himself as “one of the lucky ones” because he claimed that other boys had been treated much worse than him and that he had encouraged the former Scouts group members to release their accounts in an effort to expose and shame the perpetrators of the horrific abuse they had experienced.
If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www. rapecrisis. org. uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999.
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