Absolute nonsense,’ says Heather, now 87. In her autobiography, Clarissa said her father had hit her with a red-hot poker. Heather blames her sister for slandering the name of their doctor father It was a very wicked thing for her to say.’ He sometimes had a temper, but he wasn’t violent.
So how she could say such things about my father I just don’t understand, and I want people to know the truth. ‘We had a lovely home and upbringing and a first-rate education. ‘We were given so much we didn’t want for anything,’ says Heather.
Clarissa’s claims in her 2007 memoir Spilling The Beans that their father was a brutal drunk who beat her and their mother Aileen, known as Molly, are ‘a total betrayal of a great man’.Ĭlarissa was the last-born of the four Dickson Wright children – 20 years younger than Heather, 17 years younger than June and 13 years younger than Anthony. The Clarissa loved by TV viewers for her defiantly high-calorie recipes – all the while overweight and unkempt – was a fantasist, insists Heather. There was also the simmering rancour over the £2.8 million inheritance from their mother’s will, which Heather says Clarissa refused to share and instead used to finance 12 years of drunken high living – and the pursuit of men. At the heart of it is Clarissa’s claim that their late father, distinguished surgeon Arthur Dickson Wright, was a violent alcoholic. She’s still as annoyed about Clarissa as she had been when their feud began more than 30 years ago. In this shocking confession Heather Stretton gives details on why she never grieved her late sister
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