Jimmy Carr faces fresh backlash after ‘joking sex abuse victims should laugh off trauma’

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JIMMY Carr is facing a fresh backlash after reportedly joking that child sex abuse victims should laugh off their trauma in an unearthed podcast interview.

The controversial comedian has been criticised by Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen, 81, for his comments. During the podcast chat, Jimmy allegedly said: “I have done a lot of jokes about paedophilia and I am sure at every show there is someone that was inappropriately touched.

I am sure. “You just look at the statistics and say, 'Well that has to be the case’. “And how do you process that? How do you win?

Well, the best reward is a life well lived and to move on and laugh about it.” But Dame Esther hit out at his comments, telling the Sunday People: “When you suffer abuse as a child, particularly sexual abuse but any type of abuse or neglect, it can lead to very deep scars. “Personally I have never met a survivor who laughed about it or found it funny even when they’ve moved on and made a tremendous success as many do." It comes after Jimmy faced calls for a police investigation after joking about the genocide of gypsies in the holocaust. @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.svg#').