One of the women who alleged Walliams “groomed” her as a teenager told BBC Newsnight she was “angry” at his behaviour.

Lilly Creightmore – who Walliams contacted when she was 18 – waived her right to anonymity.

Creightmore told Newsnight that a month after they first met, Walliams told her she “could move in with him and basically that I could be his flatmate”.

She said that after she arrived to stay at his house she “felt instantly pressured to share a bed with him”.

“In the evenings, he would sort of come and sit with me and stroke my leg, and one night I think he put his head in my lap and sort of be like, ‘are you sure you don’t want to come and sleep in my bed with me?’ I had an inner strength like, ‘no I’m not attracted to you in that way’… I felt I was being manipulated,” she added.

She told Newsnight: “I am angry, I’m suppressing it well, but just that this culture of older men in positions of power needs to go, needs to stop. They’re abusing their positions, using young people and abusing young people, and people of any age of course. There were too many men in power still, that are doing this and they need to go.”

Walliams’s lawyers told the ITV News and Guardian investigation that he denied grooming Creightmore or acting inappropriately. They added he did not “target” her because she was “vulnerable” or “young”.

Walliams said he believed his friendship with Lilly was a “special one” and felt “devastated” by her account. He denied the offers of help or gifts were attempts to groom, manipulate or coerce her into sleeping with him.

Two women, given pseudonyms of Alex and Jade in the investigation, have alleged that they first had contact with Walliams when they were 15 years old.

Alex alleged that she met Walliams in 2004 at a fan event when she was 15. She claimed that she and Walliams stayed in touch over the next two years and they had consensual sex for the first time when she was 17, the report alleged.