Huw Edwards #11 BBC Presenter Scandal

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didisaythatoutloudoops said:
I'm old enough to remember the days of page 3 of the Sun when they were showing 16 year olds topless. I know it was a few years ago but it's largely the same people in charge - and I find this outrage they seem to display over this 17 year old quite disingenuous.
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Yep, me too, and the countdown to Linzi Dawn Mckenzies 16th birthday so they could do “the big reveal” of her page 3 photos
 
curious cookie jar said:
I’m really beginning to wonder whether his way of getting his kicks was the risky behaviour rather than the sexual element of it all.
He could’ve saved us all from a lot of anxiety and just shoplifted some booze like Richard Madely 🤣
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That's very much the experience of many people suffering from sex or porn addiction. I think that would explain much of Huw's behaviour.
 
I think I’ve made it clear but but just in case: I’m not baying for the parent’s blood, I’m baying for the media’s. I can also hope that the parent’s utilise some critical thinking skills and realise that this is not in the best interests of their child and pull out.
 
pommobear said:
IMO the difference between those situations is it is not the parent's story to tell, it is their (adult) child's.
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So the parent’s experience in trying to do the best for their crack-addicted child in the face of a disinterested BBC and a millionaire perv and cheat who may well have paid-off their child to keep him quiet isn’t their “story to tell”? What a bizarre stance to take.
 
pommobear said:
IMO the difference between those situations is it is not the parent's story to tell, it is their (adult) child's.
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Yes but their child is (allegedly) a drug addict and they are quite clearly terrified he's going to die. Whilst it may not be the way I'd go about things, I'm not going to condem them for trying to save their child's life. They must be desperate. Perhaps they've decided estranged is better than dead. At least that has hope.
 
pommobear said:
I would say IMO it's not really for the parents to profit off this whole sorry situation, is it.
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Exactly. They have widely publiscised their child's sex life (which so far has not been proven to include things when they were underage) as well as their drug addiction. Something which their child, now an adult, has clearly not consented to and has publicly rejected. There should be absolutely no way that they profit from this.
If the young person in question wants to discuss this in a public forum then I feel they are entitled to earn money from it, given that their parents have blown their life up (the reality is they are not going to stay anonymous).


My other question is (and it may have been mentioned in one of the many other threads) but have they proven that HE knew about the drug addiction or that he was intentionally giving money to allow them to buy drugs. He may have been giving it as part of OF payments, or to help the young person pay rent or buy food or put towards education. You can give money with an intention of what you want people to use it for, but you can't control what they actually do with it.
And are the parents saying they've never given the person money that they may have then used to buy drugs etc?

I can understand that the parents probably started from a place of concern but I believe they have gone about this in a way that will only end up being damaging to the young person
 
SendReceive said:
So the parent’s experience in trying to do the best for their crack-addicted child in the face of a disinterested BBC isn’t their “story to tell”? What a bizarre stance to take.
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It's not their decision. It's their child's.

When I was in my late teens (but an adult), I was assaulted by my then-boyfriend. For a whole host of reasons I did not want to take it to the police. One of my parents did it on my behalf - I didn't want them to. It caused a rift between us that persists to this day. It was my life. My decision to make. My story to tell. Not theirs. Whatever their intentions were.
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TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo said:
Yes but their child is (allegedly) a drug addict and they are quite clearly terrified he's going to die. Whilst it may not be the way I'd go about things, I'm not going to condem them for trying to save their child's life. They must be desperate. Perhaps they've decided estranged is better than dead. At least that has hope.
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It's the payment that makes it icky. In my opinion.
 
Multiple people here have talked about the effects of this, including their experience with HE, on the young person. The fact is that if they’re estranged and are struggling with a drug addiction, the parents having more of the story released with possibly sensationalised details is not going to be helpful at all

There’s also this automatic assumption that the parents are doing what is best for the child. We don’t know their relationship with their child and how healthy or unhealthy it is and there is the possibility that they’re estranged for good reasons unrelated to this alleged drug addiction or that the drug addiction itself is connected to a poor relationship with their parents.
 
pommobear said:
It's not their decision. It's their child's.

When I was in my late teens (but an adult), I was assaulted by my then-boyfriend. For a whole host of reasons I did not want to take it to the police. One of my parents did it on my behalf - I didn't want them to. It caused a rift between us that persists to this day. It was my life. My decision to make. My story to tell. Not theirs. Whatever their intentions were.
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It's the payment that makes it icky. In my opinion.
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I make this comment with respect.

Then you are projecting your thoughts and feelings onto this situation (as we all do).
For every person who felt like you, there will a similar number who felt relieved that someone went into battle for them. Not everyone's experience is the same.
 
InTheDollsHouse said:
I had this. But to the GP. And it still causes the same rift. I will never, ever forget that day.

It is never okay to tell someone else’s story.
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I also have a close relative who is an addict and I know from experience how bleeping damaging and wounding it is to your relationship when you try to "save" them. They have to actually want the help. Force it and it only gets worse and worse.
 
pommobear said:
It's not their decision. It's their child's.
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Why do you think that they have no right to talk about their own experiences if it is done anonymously and without revealing any information which could lead to their son being identified?

Do you think Huw Edwards should have the right to leak his experience to try to spin things in his favour? If so, why should the parents not have a right to give their version of events?
 
TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo said:
I make this comment with respect.

Then you are projecting your thoughts and feelings onto this situation (as we all do).
For every person who felt like you, there will a similar number who felt relieved that someone went into battle for them. Not everyone's experience is the same.
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I never said that it was. But I feel entitled to have my opinion on this subject, as everyone else on this thread does too. It doesn't make me an abuse apologist.

My parent didn't go into "battle" for me. They didn't listen to me about what I *knew*, at that point, was the right way to go about doing things (btw, I was right, the fact they went to the police had catastrophic consequences on several levels). They didn't trust that I, as an adult, knew what was best. They were thinking of themselves, their own feelings, not me or mine.
 
InTheDollsHouse said:
Personally I’m not baying for blood. My concern is that their child has refuted the parents’ claims twice, and now the Sun/TalkTV are quite possibly taking advantage of an emotive situation.

It’s not likely to end well if parents go against their adult child’s explicit instructions, especially if that child is - as the parents say - a drug addict.
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I don’t know the relationship they had with their child before he was on drugs to say what is likely. Or if he was ‘encouraged’ to tell the press it was all rubbish.

It’s also not likely to go well if their son stays on crack and just maybe that money will go towards helping him come off it.
 
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