25/07/2008
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The prostitute who sparked the Max Mosley sex scandal has gone public - again! - this time claiming that there was never talk of a Nazi theme to the five-hour S&M session that has dominated motorsport since the story first broke in the News of the World on March 30.
In an interview with Sky News - like the News of the World, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation - her face pixelated, the young, married, mother of two, says she is deeply sorry for the damage she has done.
While admitting that she did approach the News of the World with her story in return for money, she claims that in addition to not realising the importance of the story much of what appeared in the tabloid in the April 6 issue - when she talked of the Nazi theme to the orgy - was written by a third party, and that she was "put under massive pressure" to put her name to it.
In the interview, despite the comments previously attributed to her in the News of the World, and therefore the basis of the newspaper's defence, Woman E claims that there was never any talk of a Nazi theme to the orgy.
"I know for a fact, that it was spoken about, that Max actually found it quite a turn-on to speak in German," she says. "He liked the German language. It was prison uniforms because we were doing a German prison scene. But it wasn't Nazi."
Referring to how the News of the World sting came about, she continues: "I didn't decide to go to the News of the World because of what he (Mosley) was asking me to do - I'm used to stuff like that. It was just an opportunity.
"I spoke to my husband," she continues, referring to the MI5 Intelligence Officer who has since been forced to resign. "It was going to be more of a joke situation than anything. I didn't know how big it was going to be. And I certainly didn't know how big the response would be over Max Mosley and the importance of him.
"I feel really sorry for Mrs Mosley and her family," she continues. "It's devastating for her. She didn't ask for this and I'm very sorry that it came out as it did. I don't think enough sorries could make up for this.
"I do feel responsible," she adds, although she claims she was always confident that Mosley would win his case. "I'm quite happy with the outcome of it," she says, "I think he was hard-done by as was everyone else that was involved."
Referring to the News of the World team behind the story, she continues: "I constantly told them that I didn't want to put my name to that. I would never have said it was Nazi - I would never have said he was a liar. There was lots in that second (April 6) article that didn't come from me.
"I signed the article," she admits, "but I was put under massive pressure as I was told I would be put on the front cover and basically they would do a story on me anyway."
"I can't take back what's happened," she sniffs. "I can only apologise for what's happened. But it won't take back all the damage."
Asked what advice she would give to others considering running to the tabloids with their kiss and tell stories, she adds: "If anyone wants to speak to me about it I would sit there and tell them that no money is worth this sort of trouble and anguish which it's caused for everybody."
All very well, and all very noble of this woman coming forward. However, the fact is that it's a little bit late to be saying sorry.
Ignoring the ethics that allow a married woman, a mother of two, to follow such a profession - and this is no poor uneducated trash needing to work the mean streets for her next fix of heroin - there is the fact that she broken a code of confidentiality and for that she will rightly be shunned by all.
It is all very well sobbing in front of the cameras now, attempting to make out that she too was a victim of a joke that got out of hand, the fact is that this is a woman, who, in league with others, attempted to exploit a situation for a handful of silver. She has let down everyone involved in this wretched saga.
The fact that Mosley has now instigated libel proceedings against at least two newspapers means that this story will continue to keep our sport in the headlines for all the wrong reasons for some time to come.