WHAT the hell has Coronation Street star Bill Roache been supping down The Rovers?
Roache is one of those oddballs who believed the Mayan prediction that the world would end last year. Now he probably wishes it had.
He doesn?t do many interviews, which is probably just as well.
Because his latest would be well advised to be his last.
The 80-year-old actor ? who has played bore-next-door fictional character Ken Barlow on Coronation Street for over half a century ? has gone on New Zealand TV to give his opinion on, of all things, child sex victims.
Although Roache ? a member of the Pure Love Movement ? was quick to condemn the perpetrators, he did appear to claim that the poor unfortunate victims had only themselves to blame.
He told Garth Bray on One News: ?If you know that you are pure love and therefore live that pure love, these things won?t happen to you.?
The interviewer was quick to round on Roache, asking: ?To some people, that sounds perhaps like you?re saying victims bring things on themselves. Is that what you?re saying??
The actor responded: ?Not quite, but then, yes I am, because everything that happens to us has been a result of what we have been in previous lives.?
Then followed an almost immediate, unreserved and fairly genuine apology.
Speaking on Sky News, Roache backtracked: ?I am very sorry for any offence that has been caused as a result of my comments.
?I would never say that victims of sexual offences are in any way responsible for the abuse they have suffered.?
Roache?s views on reincarnation are right up there with those of former England manager Glenn Hoddle, who once claimed that disabilities are a result of ?karma?.
It was Piers Morgan who bagged the exclusive that Roache has bedded a thousand women.
No one?s quite sure if he slept with these ladies during the course of his current lifetime or whether the conquests occurred throughout a previous one.
Roache can sleep with whom he likes but to insinuate that sexual abuse is metered out as some kind of retribution for past crimes is grossly insulting to all victims of sex abuse.
We live in a cruel world but saying that humans could be capable of acts so bad that they receive sexual abuse as punishment beggars belief.
This misguided old fool?s outrageous claptrap must reopen so many old wounds and greatly upset those who have already spent plenty of time asking ?why me??
There are no previous lives ? qualified by the fact that there are far more people alive today than have ever existed in history.
Bill Roache is a seasoned media professional and should know better so there?s really no excuse for his nonsense.
He has the right to air his airy-fairy spiritual beliefs but must be willing to accept the flak that will follow such crass comments.
His Coronation Street paymasters must surely now be worried that his personal views on child sex abuse have damaged the actor ? and his character ? beyond repair.
And let?s not forget ? there is only ever one person responsible for abuse and that is the abuser.
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