Inside Bianca Gascoigne’s dark childhood being ‘groomed by Mohamed Al Fayed who plied family with gifts before assault’

SMILING into the cameras arsenic she struck a pose, fewer could spot the trauma hidden down the eyes of stunning exemplary Bianca Gascoigne. 

The Love Island winner, 37, who is the adopted girl of England footballer ‘Gazza’, overcame heartbreaking puerility struggles including familial alcoholism and being disowned by a parent.

Now Bianca has revealed she is simply a unfortunate of intersexual maltreatment - telling Sky News she was groomed and attacked by monster Mohamed Al Fayed, the precocious proprietor of section store Harrods who died past year, aged 94.

She joins scores of women denouncing the precocious businessman pursuing a BBC documentary into his alleged intersexual misconduct, which has led to the Metropolitan Police signaling much than 60 allegations including rape. 

Describing her ordeal arsenic “horrific”, Bianca says Al Fayed promoted her to a manner purchaser astatine his Knightsbridge store astatine 16 years aged and lavished her household with gifts earlier sexually assaulting her.

She claimed helium groped her, forced her to buss him connected the lips and recounted different peculiarly harrowing ordeal erstwhile helium fto her enactment astatine his Harrods Park Lane flat.

Bianca said: “He turned up astatine the flat to my shock, I was conscionable gobsmacked. I was benignant of precise shell-shocked.

"I conscionable didn't truly cognize what to do. He came successful and past helium sat maine down connected the sofa... helium got his privates retired and got my hands and was trying to manoeuvre them connected his parts.

"When that didn't enactment helium was trying to unit my caput onto his lap. And I don't cognize however but I managed to wiggle away.

"And I deliberation perchance you know, that him knowing my parents... I don't know, that mightiness person saved maine astatine that infinitesimal but it was horrific."

The Egyptian's alleged maltreatment was conscionable 1 portion of a troubled and traumatic upbringing, which incredibly the exemplary has been capable to retrieve from. 

Now arsenic Bianca bravely speaks out, we look astatine however she navigated her mode backmost to forge a palmy vocation and blessed household life.

Twisted 'father figure'

The 37-year-old has opened up astir her employment nether Al Fayed erstwhile she was a teen connected The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee. 

The maltreatment began aft she was promoted from store level idiosyncratic to her “dream” occupation of a manner buyer.

Bianca says helium manipulated her by insisting helium was a “father figure”, which led to a “false consciousness of information with him aboriginal doors” and yet to maltreatment during play meetings. 

She recalls: “He's doing each these things to maine and I was adjacent to radical that helium knew, and I felt similar I couldn't adjacent archer them either, due to the fact that I didn't privation to bring embarrassment and shame.

"[Al Fayed] told maine that if I would accidental thing that I would suffer my job. So I conscionable got truly scared, astatine 16 turning 17, you deliberation you cognize what's going connected astatine the clip but you truly don't.”

Bianca says Al Fayed would regularly unit her to buss him and recalled that horrifying incidental astatine his apartment, which helium told her to enactment astatine due to the fact that she had an aboriginal formation the adjacent morning. 

She suspects the businessman knowing her parents was the lone happening that “saved her” erstwhile she refused to springiness successful to his alleged intersexual demands. 

Bianca besides recalled him describing her adopted begetter Gazza, Paul Gascoigne, arsenic “an embarrassment” and regularly mocked his intelligence wellness and addiction problems.

“He utilized to archer maine however overmuch of a atrocious begetter my dada was due to the fact that helium utilized to travel into the store drunk,” she says. 

More than 250 radical are progressive successful compensation claims against Harrods related to Al Fayed's allegedly intersexual misconduct.

'My fault'

England subordinate Paul’s alcoholism had an effect connected his full household - but particularly Bianca, who says arsenic a youngster she blamed herself for his struggles.

She told Vicki Pattison’s The Secret To podcast: “As a child, I ever felt similar it was my responsibility this was happening. I couldn’t halt it and I ever felt this large responsibility.”

Bianca agreed arsenic the Geordie Shore prima explained: “You don’t cognize wherefore they don’t emotion you capable to stop”, earlier realising successful adulthood that determination was “nothing we could person done”.

During her 2017 quality connected Celebrity Big Brother, Bianca opened up astir the toll his issues had taken connected the family.

Around that time, Paul had fractured his skull during a boozy combat astatine a edifice and Bianca admitted she longed for him to instrumentality to rehab. 

"He’s a large portion of our lives. We emotion him. I emotion him, if I could question a magic wand for him to beryllium amended evidently I would bash it,” she told a Big Brother housemate. 

“I deliberation helium needs to spell into rehab for a precise agelong time… I’ve got fingers, toes, eyelashes crossed that helium volition get better.

“I interest astir Dad. We've go adjacent implicit this past year.”

Bianca pointed retired that it was often her parent Sheryl, who divorced Paul successful 1998, who was blamed for her ex-husband’s health.

“She is inactive helping him adjacent now, each day. She’s been a spot of a scapegoat,” the exemplary explained.

While Bianca has not addressed this portion of her childhood, Sheryl claimed Gazza was charming to the extracurricular satellite yet abusive to her and their 3 children. 

Speaking astir the duality, the mum explained that fewer would recognise “the monstrous, manipulative, divisive, bullying drunk my children knew arsenic Dad”.

In 2022, Bianca acknowledged 1 of the large difficulties with alcoholism was that it’s a lifelong conflict for sufferers.

When asked however her adopted dada was coping, she said: “He’s ok. It’s inactive determination and inactive contiguous but we conscionable privation the champion for him.”

Disowned by dad

Bianca didn’t person things overmuch easier with her biologic dada Colin Kyle, who is besides the begetter of her member Mason.

After helium and her mum Sheryl divided up successful 1986, it appears determination has been small interaction with his kids and according to the model, helium had small involvement successful having a relationship.

In 2006, erstwhile Bianca appeared connected Celebrity Love Island - a bid she won alongside Calum Best - she opened up astir Colin. 

“He ne'er truly wanted to spot me,” she responded erstwhile asked if she saw “anything” of her “real dad” by the histrion Lee Otway. 

“He didn't marque an effort and earlier I came distant I really sat down and thought, 'God, you've got 2 children and you don't adjacent cognize them,' it's weird."

When Lee suggested helium would “be kicking himself now” seeing the pistillate she had become, Bianca added: "I anticipation so.

“I don't cognize however helium sleeps astatine night, I don't however you tin you person 2 children and you don't adjacent privation to cognize them."

'Awful' pregnancy

Having had specified a hard household beingness increasing up, it was nary wonderment erstwhile Bianca became large successful 2022 she was a small apprehensive and fearful. 

This trepidation was worsened by antenatal depression, which strikes during pregnancy, and she told The Sun determination were times she “didn’t privation to beryllium pregnant”. 

She explained: “I conscionable wanted to beryllium successful a corner, I conscionable wasn't maine astatine all. You're expected to beryllium truthful blessed and like, ‘This is the champion clip of my life’ and that makes everything worse.

“I was conscionable reasoning ‘no this is atrocious I hatred it,’ passim the full time.”

She recalled portion having a C-section expressing concerns to her mum astir “if I’m going to person a connection” with her daughter, Blake Sunshine. 

Bianca continued: “But past I came backmost astir and erstwhile I looked astatine my babe I thought, ‘she amazing’ and I felt this protectiveness.”

While balancing caller motherhood with then-fiance Arron Wright, she went connected Celebity SAS: Who Dares Wins, which she described arsenic “one of the worst experiences of my life”.

Bianca said: “I had conscionable had a C-Section, I had antenatal depression, was the astir unfit I had ever been and my hormones were each implicit the spot but I americium arrogant of myself due to the fact that I inactive did it.

“I had specified a atrocious pregnancy. My hormones were horrific. I was missing my girl truthful overmuch due to the fact that she was lone 4 months old.

“At the clip it was 1 of the worst experiences of my beingness but looking backmost present it was 1 of the champion experiences of my beingness isolated from having my babe daughter.”

Last month, the mum revealed she and fiance Arron had divided up aft 3 years unneurotic - with a root describing it arsenic a “tough determination for them both”.

Typical of the spot that’s characterised overmuch of her life, Bianca has embraced the situation and travel retired of the different broadside stronger. 

“Though I ne'er wanted to beryllium a azygous mum, you person to marque the champion retired of the situation, and Blake Sunshine’s happiness comes first,” she told The Sun.

“These days, I consciousness similar a super-mum – my clip connected Celebrity SAS near maine feeling truthful powerful.”

Bianca admits that motherhood has helped to imbue her with “loads of interior confidence” and believes it's a relation she was ever destined to play.

“I’m besides overmuch much comfy successful my ain tegument now," she told us. "When my girl was born, it was similar I transformed into a lioness looking aft my tiny cub.

“Blake Sunshine and I person the strongest enslaved – it’s the 2 of america unneurotic taking connected the world.”

Harrods has not responded to requests for remark since Bianca Gascoigne's claims against Mohamed Al Fayed person emerged.