[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Oh Livia, I felt like I was in the witness box just then

I read it here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dav...#Autobiography

In Davidson's first autobiography The Full Monty[34] (1993), he frankly talked about his violent and abusive behaviour towards his wife in a light-hearted manner: "We’re like a couple of boxers. On the first occasion, I poked her in the eye by accident. I actually went for the mouth. Thank heaven I missed, I’d have fallen in. I just took a playful punch. Unfortunately I caught her completely wrong. The second time I gave her a shiner. I threw a bunch of keys which whacked her in the eye. Just for a giggle she kept blackening it up to make it look worse."

I've got my wig on you know... I always wear it for getting stroppy on here.

I'm not trying to make excuses for him, and I don't have time for wife (or husband) beaters. But he's admitted it and says his life has moved on. You can't keep beating someone up for the same thing if they've turned their life around.