BBC presenter Alex Scott 'hurt' after her dad denies domestic abuse allegations

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England and Arsenal right-back recalled lying in bed “praying that my mum would be alive in the morning” after hearing her dad being violent in their east London flat while growing up.Her father, Tony, has since denied having been violent towards his family in a Daily Mail interview, though he admitted he was a strict parent to Scott and her brother.READ MORE: Mesut Ozil shares hospital bed snap as ex-Arsenal pals wish him well after surgeryHe said: "Perhaps she is judging me by today's standards, I don't know.

Parents were a lot tougher back then. But I was never violent, that's just not me. I never beat Alex or anyone else in the family or did anything like that."But broadcaster Scott appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour on Tuesday, where she said: "I almost feel angry at myself that I'm allowing him to hurt me again by those claims of lying."That story from him coming out yesterday takes her [her mother] back to a place...

hearing the pain and the terror again in her voice last night - that's why I don't know what I can do. But I'm not going to allow him to win no more."This book, the reason was to get some peace.

And I suppose when you are in peace it gives you a new position of power and that's maybe why he's trying to [respond] right now."[My mum] doesn't know that her two kids are in the room hearing everything.