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Liam Gallagher says assault allegations against Debbie Gwyther “blown out of proportion”

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 17 June 2019

Liam Gallagher has said that claims he assaulted girlfriend Debbie Gwyther at a restaurant last year were “blown out of fucking proportion”. He spoke about the incident, which saw him questioned by police, in a new interview with the Sunday Times, where he chatted to the newspaper alongside his three eldest children.

“What happened there that night, it got way blown out of fucking proportion as far as I was concerned”, says Gallagher. “The next day I apologised to [my children]. Not because there was anything malicious in it, but because it was all in the press. [I was] going, ‘Look, it wasn’t like what they’re saying’. I apologised to Debbie’s parents and my mam and the kids, cos it’s just bullshit”.

Asked for his version of what did in fact happen, he went on: “Well, nothing happened. We just had a disagreement, there was drinks involved, it was all blown out of proportion and it was all sorted the next day”.

The claims that Gallagher assaulted Gwyther were made by The Sun last August, based on video footage which the newspaper also published. On the back of that video, Gallagher was questioned by police, although he was never charged. “We went to the police station – and that was another load of bollocks too, they all looked starstruck”, he says.

Gallagher and Gwyther both denied The Sun’s version of events last year. Gwyther criticised the paper – and others in the media – for expressing concern for her in their articles, but then approaching Gallagher rather than her for comment. She also said that the report was “a pack of lies” and that she was considering legal action.