Samantha Fox reveals her alcoholic father kicked her so hard she thought he’d kill her
SAMANTHA Fox has revealed how her dad kicked her so hard during a drunken attack she thought he would kill her.
The former Page 3 model said her father, Pat, took control of her business interests as she rose to fame.
She told the Daily Mirror he battled an alcohol and cocaine problem and eventually assaulted her in a spat over a car radio.
The 51-year-old, who yesterday accused late singer David Cassidy of sexual assault, told of the brutal attack when she was in her mid-20s.
The glamour girl : "I’d been asking him for months to put a radio in my car but he’d been too disorganised or drunk to sort it out so I asked my bodyguard Dave to do it."
She said her dad "went crazy" and started attacking her.
She added: “I was already on the floor curled up hiding in the corner and covering my face when he started kicking me and screaming, ‘You look like your f*****g mother. You’re just like her.’
“I thought he was going to kill me and begged him to stop. When I tried to get up he kicked me so hard in the stomach it winded me and he wouldn’t stop."
The model said she ended up with two fractured ribs, a gash on her forehead and a black eye.
After the assault she said she fled the house with blood in her hair, when a neighbour told her not to tell the police as it would ruin her father.
Sam, whose new book Forever is set to be released this week, said when she returned home to collect her belongings her dad cried and begged her to forgive him - but she refused.
She revealed that despite not speaking with him much before his death in 2000, she has now forgiven him.
The former model believes a difficult childhood drove him to addiction, which in turn drove his behaviour towards her.
In another heartbreak later on in life an Australian fraudster Peter Foster betrayed her by exploiting her image to sell teas.
She moved on and found love with her former manager, Myra Stratton, who tragically died from cancer in 2015, and is now happily living with her partner Linda Olsen.
Yesterday we reported the 80s glamour girl was asked to pose topless during the shoot alongside Cassidy.
In her autobiography the actress claims Cassidy, who died last month, grabbed her breast and stuck his hand up her skirt.
The 51-year-old said she was forced to knee the recently deceased Breaking Up Is Hard To Do singer in crotch to fight him off.
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