BBC Presenter Alex Scott: I Won't Let My Abusive Dad Win Anymore

Scott has published her memoir in which she describes her father's violent behavior towards her and her mother.

< p class="" data-reactid=".xj5gbcw0to.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4">His father, Tony, denied his claims on Monday in an interview with the Daily Mail.

Responding to Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, Scott said: "I almost feel mad at myself for allowing him to hurt me again by these false claims."

In a moving interview, the former England footballer said she decided to write about the behavior of her father because she wanted to help "free my mother".

The man The 37-year-old said: "This story of her coming out yesterday brings her back to a place...hearing the pain and terror in her voice again last night - that's why I don't know what I can do. But I'm not going to allow him to win anymore.

"This book, the reason was to get some peace . And I guess when you're at peace it gives you a new position of power and maybe that's why he's trying to (respond) right now."

In his autobiography, How (Not) to Be Strong, Scott recounts hearing his father being violent towards his mother when she and her brother were in bed in their apartment in the East London. She wrote: "All I could do was lay here and pray my mum was alive tomorrow morning."

Speaking to Emma Barnett of Radio 4, she said: "(My mum) doesn't know her two children are in the room and hear everything.

"She's trying to be strong in a totally different way, we're trying to be strong for her but we can't help it. The visuals are still there. I couldn't do anything.

" Everything is still so raw. I can visualize it like it was yesterday.

"Even when my father left this environment, we never communicated or you don't talk about it no, it's like you're trying to move on with your life and let it go, but it never leaves you. This pain and the struggles continue."

'I'm sorry I didn't use my voice earlier'

In his father's interview, he denied being violent towards his family, but admitted that he was a strict parent.

He said, "Maybe she's judging me by today's standards, I don't know. The parents were much tougher back then. But I was never violent, that's not me. I never beat up Alex or anyone else in the family or does something like this."

In response, Scott added, "Actually, I don't care what happened to me. If you say being beaten with a belt is just being strict - I can understand that, I really don't care about myself.

"What matters to me is my mother, the fear and terror she had to live in and the fact that I was never able to help her, but what can I do , is to help him now by speaking the truth to him. And everything I wrote in this book, I stand by. It's the truth."

Scott has pledged that all proceeds from his book will go helping women who are victims of domestic violence.

She added, "I'm sorry I didn't use my voice earlier to help my mother or any other woman who is in this position.

"But what he did - he lit a new fire in me yesterday. What I I will do is do whatever I can to help women in this position so they don't have the feelings that my mother has carried all her life - or that I have."