Nadine Dorries MP: Vicar abused me as a child

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Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has revealed that the child sexual abuse described in her three novels was based on abuse that happened to her when she was eight years old. The former I'm a Celebrity contestant, who grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool, says she was abused for two years by family friend and local vicar Reverend William Cameron. She told Stephen Nolan: "I did thread that vein through the three books because I wanted to get my revenge, and I wanted him to see it and know it was him. And I wrote his name in the third book, and then a journalist told me on the day it was published that he died in 2011." Ms Dorries, who never went to the police, said she never confronted him: "I couldn't confront him, I couldn't tell anybody. It was just my secret that I've carried around for a very long time. I've had to speak to my mum, I've had to tell my daughters. That was hard enough. It wasn't an easy week this week. It was quite a shock to open an email from a journalist telling me he was dead because I kind of wish I'd known at the time." This clip was originally broadcast on the Stephen Nolan programme