A judge rules today on comedian Freddie Starr's damages claim against a woman who says he groped her when she was in the audience at a Jimmy Savile show when she was 15 years old.
The entertainer told London's High Court last month that he did not at first remember appearing on Clunk Click in March 1974 - 41 years ago - until footage showed him in the studio, with Karin Ward in the audience behind him.
He rejected the allegation that he groped her in Savile's dressing room and humiliated her by calling her a "titless wonder".
"It just never happened. It was not in my moral compass. My moral compass will not allow me to do that."
Starr, 72, who was married to the second of his four wives at the time, said he had never groped anyone in his life and it was untrue that he had "wandering hands".
He is suing for slander and libel over interviews given to the BBC and ITV in October 2012 and statements on a website and in an eBook - and says he lost £300,000 because of shows cancelled as a result.
Ms Ward, 56, denies the claims and relies on the defences of justification and public interest.
The mother of seven, who was a pupil at Duncroft Approved School at the time, said she had performed a sexual act on Savile more than once in return for going to BBC Television Centre in London for his Clunk Click show.
She told Mr Justice Nicol, who heard the case without a jury, that Starr had behaved in the same way that every red-blooded male did in 1974 when it was perfectly acceptable.
"The only thing I complained about was that he called me a 'titless wonder' in a room full of people. I carried that phrase with me all my life and it certainly helped to wreck three marriages."
Ms Ward said she had no idea that what she had written about her life for herself was going to be spread all over the globe.
"Had I ever ever anticipated that anything like this might possibly happen...I am very very naive, I am very silly, I am a complete technophobe."
She said that when she was contacted by the BBC in 2011 for a Newsnight interview about Savile, she was reluctant as she was having treatment for advanced bowel cancer.
She felt pressured to do the interview - in which she included the words complained of by Starr but did not identify him by name - but was convinced that the BBC would never air it and, as she felt she would not survive, did not think she was exposing herself to a great risk.
When the Newsnight programme did not go ahead, she had no control over the use the BBC made of the interview and never imagined that other programme makers would take the footage.
She said that when she spoke about Starr to a journalist for the ITV interview about Savile, who said he was building up a dossier, she did not know or intend that her words would be broadcast.
"I am not prepared to apologise to the claimant or retract what I have said, because I have told the truth about him."