Richard Bacon

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day · Richard Bacon - ‘I Was Betrayed By My Best Friend’ · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

for a long time.

Well, the biggest shame about it, I can explain that quite simply, really, which is it was actually some time later, I don't know how much time later, but my mum told me it was the only time that she'd heard my dad cry ever.

And he's just from that generation that doesn't.

And his own dad came out of World War II, didn't show emotion.

My dad doesn't know what he's like.

And he cried and it was on the Monday morning.

So the News of the World comes out on a Sunday and this is now Monday morning.

He's got to go to court where he works, as we've established.

And he went into the shower to cry.

So he went into the shower and then he turned on the shower so that she wouldn't hear him cry.

So he didn't want her to know.

And she didn't tell me at the time.

She left it quite a while, to be honest.

But she said it's, you know, I mean, even to this day, it's just the only time I've ever heard him cry.

So when she told me that story, I felt a deep sense of shame.

It was quite a public humiliation.

I was young, you know, so I was actually still 22 when it happened.

You know, I've been through a few other bad things, some that have been public and some that haven't.

And I think I am quite resilient.

I think that I can kind of, I think I've, I was aware at the time when that thing was happening, like there were points when it was awful.

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