Tragic Jeremy Kyle guest’s son says TV host ‘really ripped into him’ on stage and he was ‘distraught’ after failing lie detector
Carl Woolley, 39, from Telford, spoke to his distraught dad after he filmed the show
A DAD who was found dead days after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show told his son the presenter had “really laid into him”, it emerged today.
Steve Dymond, 63, was left feeling distraught after failing a lie detector test when asked whether he cheated on his fiancée.
The following week he died in a suspected suicide and the controversial show has been suspended with MPs urging ITV to permanently scrap the programme.
Both the show and Kyle have come under fire but it has since emerged Steve's own stepdaughter has defended the presenter, claiming he was a “liar”.
Steve's son Carl Woolley, 39, had not spoken to his dad for seven years but received a call from a relative who became concerned about his behaviour after the show.
Carl, a health and safety adviser, told the : “I called after he got home from filming the episode. He was distraught over the break-up of the relationship.
Sophie, from Gosport, said: “My stepdad failed so he must have been lying. He was always lying but he was convincing.
“I think he couldn’t deal with the lies. Nobody deserves to die but I just feel bad for my mum.”
She added: “I think the show should carry on. It is not down to Jeremy – it is not his fault at all really.”
Steve's landlady Shelley said “tears were rolling down his face” when he returned home after filming the show.
She said he told her it “turned nasty” after the lie detector results were revealed.
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Shelley said: “He said Jeremy Kyle ‘ripped’ into him and called him a liar. Those were his words.
“He told me he had wanted to kill himself when he was being driven back to Portsmouth in a taxi the show had booked.”
His body was found in the flat next to a message to Jane which read: “I can’t live without you. I just wanted to come and see you. My life is not worth living without you.”
ITV said all guests on the show are given an assessment by mental health workers ahead of appearing and are supported by a "welfare team" during recording.
They are then interviewed again after the show has finished to see if they need any further support - including "rehabilitation, counselling, anger management, family mediation, child access mediation or couple counselling".
A spokesperson said: "The programme has significant and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors pre, during and post show which have been built up over 14 years, and there have been numerous positive outcomes from this, including people who have resolved complex and long-standing personal problems.
"As we have said, everyone at ITV and The Jeremy Kyle Show is shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a participant in the show a week after the recording of the episode they featured in and our thoughts are with their family and friends.
"We will not screen the episode in which they featured.
"Given the seriousness of this event, ITV has also decided to suspend both filming and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle Show with immediate effect in order to give it time to conduct a review of this episode of the show, and we cannot comment further until this review is completed."