Strictly’s Anton Du Beke inundated with support after detailing abuse in candid interview

Anton Du Beke has been inundated with messages from his followers after he opened up in regards to the harrowing childhood abuse he confronted by the hands of his father throughout a candid interview with Kate Garraway.

The Strictly Come Dancing choose and former skilled dancer appeared on the ITV programme to debate his profession, private life, and upbringing when he shared that he had suffered trauma as a baby and was stabbed in the abdomen and leg by his father on Boxing Day. 

The beloved BBC star revealed to Kate that he hadn’t earlier than shared this with his closest household and pals.

After information of Anton’s story hit the headlines, the Strictly star reposted Kate Garraway’s promotional photograph on Instagram, which prompted Anton’s followers to flood to the feedback part and ship well-wishes and messages of support to him.

One particular person wrote: “Ohhh how sad… sorry to read this morning…. keep strong very sad for you… it’s out now hopefully it will give you some space to heal your hurt. All the very best Anton.”

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Another stated: “Think I’ll laugh and cry at the same time! Looking forward to it though. You’re a special man.” Meanwhile, a 3rd posted on Twitter: “I’m heartbroken that Anton Du Beke went through this. There are many who carry horrors of abuse in their life, from the past, or even which they live currently.

“The factor about abuse is, on the time you settle for it, typically as you are feeling you don’t have any different alternative you are older it comes again at you and might hang-out your life, in flashbacks, nightmares, belief points, anxiousness and despair.”

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Speaking on the interview programme, which can air on Wednesday on ITV1, Anton revealed: “The alcoholism and the violence [was] towards me, because I was a boy, a young man I suppose.

“You’ve acquired an alcoholic father and a state of affairs the place if you happen to’re in the home [and he’s] ingesting then you find yourself with the fights and stuff. You’d transfer room to get away from all of it after which he follows you in and the subsequent factor you understand the violence begins after which it got here to a head one night, I ended up in hospital for 3 days. I acquired stabbed, I’ve by no means stated this out loud earlier than.”

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Anton then shared how he waved down a police automotive on his strategy to the hospital. “I remember walking out of the house to walk up to the hospital, holding my leg, and a police car drove past, and I waved him down and I said: ‘He’s in there with a knife’.”

Speaking additional about his father after his demise in 2001, Anton instructed Kate: “I don’t think about him. I never give him a second thought. It does not influence me at all.  I hate the thought that anything like that defines you. I hate ‘woe is me’.”

Kate Garraway’s Life Stories airs Wednesday on ITV1 at 9 pm.