Idiot: Billy Connolly 'still loves abusive dad'

Actor and comedian Billy Connolly has spoken of how he still loves his late father, despite being sexually abused by him for five years.

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In an interview for the BBC's Review Show, Connolly said the power of forgiveness was "immense".

And he said he still considered his father, who abused him between the ages of 10 and 15, to be a "great man".

His own children - the two eldest of whom had known his father - have never asked him about the abuse.

Connolly first revealed the abuse he suffered in a biography written by his wife Pamela Stephenson in 2001 - some 12 years after his alcoholic father William died.

In the book, the 70-year-old Scot described how his mother walked out on the family when he was three, leaving him to be brought up by his father and two aunts.

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Idiot: Billy Connolly 'still loves abusive dad'

Idiot: Billy Connolly 'still loves abusive dad'

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