‘There’s terrible darkness in my son’: Jimmy Savile’s mother’s confession to priest shown in BBC’s The Reckoning
‘There’s terrible darkness in my son’: Jimmy Savile’s mother’s confession to priest shown in BBC’s The Reckoning
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Lucy Leeson | Wednesday 15 January 2025 14:57 GMT. Jimmy Savile’s mother said she feared her son had “terrible darkness” in him as she made a confession to a priest. The moment was re-enacted in the new BBC drama The Reckoning, which looks at what happened in the years before Savile, played by Steve Coogan, was found to be a prolific sex offender.
Savile’s mother Agnes, played by Gemma Jones, visits a priest to express concerns about her youngest son. She says: “It’s my fault he is like he is, always looking for attention, showing off. I worry there’s some terrible darkness in him.”. The priest asks: “Has he committed mortal sins?”.
