Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards vows to 'tell his story later this year' in wake of bombshell TV drama

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The former BBC presenter was suspended from his role as a leading news anchor in 2023 after a report in the Sun said he had allegedly paid a teenager £35,000 for intimate images and conversations.

The presenter later admitted accessing indecent images of children and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.

Edwards' downfall was then explored in a feature-length factual drama Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, which aired last month.

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Reacting to the drama for the first time, Edwards vowed to tell "his side" of the story.

He told LBC: “Much has been written and reported in the past week following Channel 5’s one-sided account.

"Other opportunities will arise later this year for me to state my case, and to challenge the misleading or fabricated claims made in recent coverage.

"A number of serious questions still remain to be answered, and not just by me. It will now take some time for me to produce my own account, and until then I do not intend to comment any further.”

Edwards has been critical of Channel 5 for failing to “check with me the truth” before running the drama.

In his statement responding to the programme, Edwards also spoke of the "fragile state of my health".

He said: "I have been open about my struggle with persistent mental illness over a period of 25 years. What is less well known is the severity of that condition, which was managed successfully until the downward spiral which led to an appalling outcome.”

“Mental illness is misunderstood by many but can never be an excuse for criminality. It can, however, at least help explain why people sometimes behave in shocking and reprehensible ways, and why things fell apart for me in the way they did.”