I have the impulse to do the wrong thing..
Strictly Seann confession as new pics revealed
Walsh and Katya with infamous kiss KATIE Ghose, chief executive of Women’s Aid, explains how to spot signs of such behaviour and how you can get support...
Many women will have had accusations of being a “psycho”, “nuts” or “mental” from someone they’re dating. It’s often laughed off but this kind of name-calling can also have a dark side. It can also be part of a pattern of psychological abuse.
Gaslighting can be used by domestic abusers to exert power and control, and can have a negative impact on wellbeing
Walsh and Emily hold hands in pub and self-esteem, and limit independence. Some of the signs are if your partner questions your memory of events, trivialises your thoughts or feelings, goes back on promises, and mocks you over “misconceptions”.
You might find you are second-guessing yourself or having trouble making simple STRICTLY star Seann Walsh cosies up with actress Emily Atack in a pub – with his girlfriend nowhere to be seen.
The images were revealed as an interview came to light in which the comedian, 32, admitted he has an “impulse” to “do the wrong thing”.
Walsh said: “When I was at school, I enjoyed misbehaviour – and I still do. That’s the impulse I have – to do the wrong thing, to say the wrong thing.
“If I sense that you shouldn’t do something, I will do it. I have a little less control than most people.
“Now and again, I am going to slip up.” He added, in the interview given five years ago, that booze was often involved, saying: “I have periods when I go off and I’m badly behaved.
“Some of it comes around intoxication… Comedians don’t have much self-control.”
Walsh was caught on film last Wednesday kissing Strictly partner Katya
Jones, 29, who is wed to fellow pro dancer Neil.
The pics of
Walsh with
Inbetweeners actress Emily,
28, were taken in December,
2016.
He had been going out with Rebecca Humphries, 32, for three years at the time.
Rebecca has now broken up with him. Yesterday, it was alleged the statement she released on Monday night was overseen by PR agency Public Eye.
In it, she exposed Walsh’s decision to go out with Katya rather than go home to her, on her birthday.
She also wrote how her concerns that “something inappropriate” was going on were dismissed by Walsh, who branded her “psycho/nuts/mental” for voicing them.
A show source said: “It was written to bring him down, to chime in with the #Metoo moment. Yes, he’s a total a***hole, but that doesn’t make him a monster.”
If Walsh does not quit the show, he and Katya will be obliged to appear on BBC2 spin-off It Takes Two before Friday.
Last night bookies were offering odds of 3/1 for him to quit before Saturday. decisions. Rebecca Humphries has not accused Seann Walsh of gaslighting or emotional abuse, but she has sent out the powerful message to women being controlled that they deserve better.
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