Henry Zebrowski

His father did just fine.

But this worked wonders for the working class cred that Jimmy Savile spent his entire life cultivating.

That was partly why Margaret Thatcher loved him so much.

It's like, oh, he's a small town boy done good.

You know, he brought himself up from nothing.

And if he can do it, why can't everyone else?

Yes.

Another working class hero, Chris Brown.

That came from nothing.

A guy made good.

Donald Trump is a guy made good.

See, with Savile's upbringing, he always liked to make it as tragic and dire as possible while also making himself miraculous.

He claimed that he almost died of an unknown illness when he was a child, but he would refuse to elaborate on what that illness was.

He would deflect.

He was just saying that when you were poor, you got ill and generally died.

He would then claim that the Duchess brought him back to life by praying to a recently deceased Scottish nun.

Savile said he was on the verge of death, but when his grandmother put a mirror under his nose to see if he was still breathing, the power of the nun coursed through him and he pissed in his grandmother's eye instead of dying.

And this story is a great example of Jimmy Savile's usual patter.

It's stuff that he thought was hilarious and cute, but it's actually just kind of gross and awful.

It's something you'd fake laugh at if someone told it to you in a bar because the story is just so uncomfortable.