The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
‘I’ve got every right to go out and be employed’, says Barrymore
Michael Barrymore has said nobody who was at his house on the night of Stuart Lubbock’s death knows what happened.
Mr Lubbock’s body was found in the swimming pool at Barrymore’s thenhome in Roydon, Essex, on March 31 2001.
Barrymore wants another investigation into the 31-year-old’s death by a new police force.
The 67-year-old told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he is going through “pain and agony” and called Channel 4’s recent programme Barrymore: The Body In The Pool “vile and vicious”.
The entertainer said of the other people at his house on the night Mr Lubbock died: “I’ve never seen them since that day... I haven’t got a number (for them), nothing.
“I don’t know any of them.
“The wall of silence is because they don’t know (what happened). I do believe that.”
Asked if he had anything fresh to offer the police, he said: “I honestly wish I did”, adding that he had been “through 20 years of hell”.
“I haven’t got another another (story). I’ve only got the one story,” he said.
Barrymore, who pulled out of Dancing On Ice after an injury, said:
“I’ve got nothing to hide. I’ve never had anything to hide. I’ve got every right to go out and be employed.”
He said Mr Lubbock’s father Terry’s torment “comes before me and everybody” but added: “I can’t live my life. I can’t get on with my life.”
Barrymore said he has been a victim of “innuendo” and added: “Why would I hide or keep anything and put myself through this pain and agony every time that this comes up?”