Emotional Victoria Derbyshire has said she faced some "really difficult times" during childhood while living with a violent father who used to whip her with his belt.
The BBC presenter said she once had to contact the police over one of his outbursts. Derbyshire, 51, presented the news in April with the telephone number for the National Domestic Abuse helpline written on her hand.
And in tonight's Panorama episode, she speaks of her fears for other women in lockdown and recalled the domestic abuse she witnessed as a child.
Derbyshire said: “When the prime minister told us all to stay at home because of coronavirus, one of my first thoughts was for those living in abusive households - women, men and children, essentially trapped, forced to
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