Comic also offered to fund legal fight against an NDA

Lucy Beaumont has revealed she was one of the whistleblowers who raised concerns about David Walliams.

The comedian also said she offered to pay legal fees for an alleged victim to fight a non-disclosure agreement stopping her from speaking out about going the comic’s dressing room.

She said: ‘I’m not saying necessarily that what she said was true, but I wanted to help her because it was a world that she was really out of depth with, and she, I believe, had signed an NDA.’

Speaking on Sky News, Beaumont said she was one of those who spoke to Guardian reporters revealing the claims about Walliams, adding: ‘I don’t know Walliams, I haven’t worked with him but… about three years ago, a young person, and it was their first job on TV, worked on a show he was on and the next show that they worked on was with me.

‘They took me aside and said, "I need to tell somebody something" and confided in me, some of his conduct that they were really worried about.’

Beaumont said the person, who was male, was told to take girls who were young – but that he ‘definitely knew were over 16’ – to Walliams’ dressing room.

‘The thing that struck me about it – and that I was very concerned about – was that he said they were very working-class girls and some of them had never been been to London before, they’d never been around TV. It felt they were vulnerable, and I was really worried,’ Beaumont told presenter Cathy Newman, while making clear this was all second-hand reports.

‘I did as much as I could do privately,’ she added. ‘I tried to contact some of them [the young girls] to check and to ask if they were all right. 

‘I contacted one of the young girls and she was in a really bad way, I was really worried about her and, to be honest, I was really worried she was going to take her own life because of it. She had put stuff online and there was evidence that she was in a dressing room. 

‘I offered to pay her legal fees to try and get her some protection and I’m not saying necessarily that what she said was true but I wanted to help her.’

The comic added that the young woman had signed an NDA that ‘wasn’t just about she couldn’t talk to the media, it was that – I’m nearly crying telling you this – she couldn’t talk to family or friends or a therapist.’ 

Walliams denies any wrongdoing after a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and the Guardian revealed a number of allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to 2003.

Multiple women accused the star of ‘grooming’ them when they were teenagers, including one who described her encounter with Walliams when she was aged 15 as ‘sexual assault’.

Walliams had sought to keep the allegations from becoming public by using an injunction, claiming he was a suicide risk if they came out.

Yesterday, he said: ‘Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with... I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.

‘And 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...

‘I am not a sexual predator... I have not broken the law... I am devastated that some of the women I met ten to twenty years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.’

In the Commons yesterday, victims minister Alex Davies-Jones said the government was reviewing how the law could be strengthened to stop powerful individuals from using injunctions to silence the media.

Published: 11 Nov 2026