Justin Lee Collins trial: Ex told me to dump her, TV star tells court

By ANGUS HOWARTH
Published on 04/10/2012 03:31

TELEVISION presenter Justin Lee Collins’s former girlfriend repeatedly told him to dump her, his trial for domestic and emotional abuse heard today.

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Collins, 38, said Anna Larke, whom he is accused of harassing, frequently phoned him with the “mantra”: “There are things you don’t know about me, there are things you don’t know about me, there are things you don’t know about, you need to dump me, you need to dump me.”

Collins is alleged to have made Ms Larke, a recovering alcoholic, write down all her previous sexual encounters regardless of how graphic.

Today, the star, who shot to fame with Channel 4’s The Friday Night Project, said making the sex list was her idea as cathartic, therapeutic and to “unburden herself”.

St Albans Crown Court heard that Collins did not want to write the details down but Ms Larke, a video games public relations worker, dictated them to him.

Collins denies harassment.

He said the seven-month relationship with Ms Larke was “absolute hell”.

“I thought she loved me and was crazy about me,” he said.

“But it turned out only the second part was true.”

He said Ms Larke who moved in with him in January 2011, was obsessive, jealous and possessive, and would send him text messages wanting to know where he was and who he was with.