Melbourne TV personality Kim Watkins has relived the ‘unnerving’ moment when she too fell victim to convicted child sex offender, Rolf Harris.
The 46-year-old host of 9am With David and Kim has opened up about the terrifying moment when Harris inappropriately ran his hands over her buttocks and torso, then shuddered and groaned in her ear after the show.
Kim, who admits she’s been following the veteran entertainer’s trial closely, says the entire court process has brought back “unpleasant memories” of her experience with the now 84-year-old performer.
“Like so many others, I’d grown up watching Rolf Harris on television. He was my childhood idol,” Kim said.
Of the interview she conducted with the then 79-year-old, Kim said Harris was “his chirpy self.”
But it’s what happened behind the scenes that left the mother-of-three unneasy.
“As we were lined up for a picture, me on one side of Rolf, David on the other, he slid his hand on my backside, then straight up my back, under my armpit, and uncomfortably near my breast,” Kim revealed.
“Then Rolf leaned into me, buried his face into my neck and groaned and sort of shuddered at the same time, making a strange noise, like, ‘Ahahahaha!’ I pulled away, repulsed.
“I was so disappointed to realise what a dirty old creep he was. What he did was so weird, disturbing and sleazy, I was stunned.”
For more, see this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale July 7, 2014.
Related stories
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
Native ad body.
