Alan Davies: ‘My father was sexually attracted to boys

Five years ago, Alan Davies revealed that he had been sexually abused by his father between the ages of eight and 13. He divulged the details in a bravely harrowing, blackly comic memoir, Just Ignore Him : how after his mother had died of leukemia when Davies was six, Roy Davies would join him for “special cuddles” in bed; how his father gaslit and manipulated Davies and his family into silence, even support; how his stepmother had discovered his father’s extensive child pornography material late in life, which she duly handed over to Davies.

“That really was a big turning point in my life,” Davies says. “I just imagined it was something between him and me. Then I realised he’s obsessed – obsessed – with boys. He was only sexually attracted to boys, and I was the nearest boy.” Eventuall