martine mccutcheonMartine McCutcheon has revealed her abusive dad dangled her over a balcony when she was just two years old.

The former Eastenders star told This Morning yesterday that her dad was jealous that her mum Jenny was devoted to baby Martine and used the threat to blackmail Jenny to have sex with him: “He knew that I had become the thing she loved the most. In a way I was a saviour but in another way he’d found her weakness.

“My first memory of my dad is him hanging me over a balcony. I remember just hearing the voices and feeling scared.

“I can remember hearing my mum reassuring him and him threatening to drop me if she didn’t do what he said.”

Jenny, who appeared on the show with her daughter, added: “Eventually a friend stepped in and managed to grab Martine. I don’t know if he would have dropped her.”

Jenny eventually left him and got an injunction out to stop him contacting either herself or Martine.

Martine added that growing up with a volatile and violent man in their life made her and Jenny “really close”: “In a way we were too close for a while, we didn’t trust anyone else. I was frightened if she was out of my life and she was frightened if I was out of her life.

“For a long time we wanted to talk about this, but we found ourselves apologising for what had happened.

“Up until about a year ago, I still thought I couldn’t talk about it and it’s only recently I stopped feeling like it was our fault.”