Late TV show guest Steve Dymond (R) said Jeremy Kyle egged on the audience to ‘boo him’ and was ‘very upset’ after the show’s recording, an inquest has heard. (Picture: ITV)
TV show guest Steve Dymond said Jeremy Kyle egged on the audience to ‘boo him’ and was ‘very upset’ after the show’s recording, his son told an inquest into his death.
Dymond, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019.
He had taken a lie detector test for the ITV programme, which ran from 2005 until 2019, after being accused of cheating on his ex-fiancee Jane Callaghan, from Gosport.
An inquest at Winchester Coroner’s Court has heard that he died at his home in Portsmouth of a combination of morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy in his heart.
Dymond’s son, Carl Woolley, told the inquest that on the day of the filming he received a call from his uncle, Leslie Dymond, to say his father was ‘very down’.
Woolley said he phoned his father who told him that Jeremy Kyle had ‘egged on’ the audience to ‘boo him’.
He said his father told him that the ‘lie detector had cast him as a liar’, but Dymond told Woolley that ‘he wasn’t lying’.
Woolley said: ‘He was telling the truth, he was not lying … and asking why it said he had lied.’
He added that his father ‘was very upset, saying he was being called a liar, everyone had jumped on him, (he was) not with it at all.’
Dymond is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019. (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)
When asked who had ‘jumped on him’, Woolley replied: ‘Jeremy Kyle had got the crowd to egg on, to boo at him and stuff, he was cast as the liar before he had even spoken.’
Woolley said his father had continued to be ‘very upset’ in the following days and would call him up to six times a day.
He told the inquest: ‘He was OK at some points but very down.’
He added that he tried to encourage his father to continue getting after-care support from ITV.
He said: ‘He told me he was getting support and after-care from the show’s counsellors, I explained to him he needed to get in contact with them and keep ringing them to get the after-care that he needed.
‘He told me he had rang and I said he needed to get some help – “Ring the show, ring the show.”‘
Woolley said that the last time his father tried to make contact was a missed call on his phone.
It was previously reported that Kyle, 58, may give evidence at the full inquest. (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
According to Woolley’s witness statement, Dymond felt he was ‘thrown under a bus’ on the show.
‘He said he had been “taken for a mug” and “pounced on” by the presenter,’ Woolley said. ‘He said he felt he “was thrown under …read more
Source:: Metro
