The journalist and author Daphne Barak, who uncovered the controversial email from the Duchess of York to Jeffrey Epstein, has said that her explanation for staying in contact with him makes no sense.
Ms Barak, who is a friend of the Duchess, said on GB News: "I like Sarah, and I talked to her a few weeks ago, and she complained about the book. And she said, ‘this is not true. Daphne, this is not true’.
“I said, Sarah, I'm not going to do the dirty work for you, either you said it or not, otherwise the public would assume everything in this book is true.
“But I said you have much bigger problems to come because I explained how everything is released right now and I said your name appears in plenty of documents, some written by you, Sarah.
“Sarah, she likes to hide. She's like an ostrich, ‘oh, let me take a walk in the park and think’. There's nothing to think. I said it's coming. It's not up to you. And we were actually looking at the Daily Mail and the Sun on Sunday, we knew about other letters.
“But on Wednesday night, when I got the phone call that these letters have been found and they showed it to me, I was crying. I was shocked. I didn't believe how could anybody write that.
“Because of my career with children charities and books is so important, you have to understand, she said. It's saying it to a paedophile. I just didn't believe that, and I did actually text message her, and I said, ‘well, you know, you may have an explanation’.
“Apparently, the explanation came from a spokesperson. I personally, as many others, don't understand how a convicted paedophile, a sex abuser, who had to register himself everywhere he went, could sue somebody for calling him a convicted paedophile.
“I don't understand, unless there's things that she didn't tell us. She told me many things about herself, she confided, I would never repeat it. But this is not only a shock for the nation of England and many others and royalists, this is a personal shock for me.”
She added: “I tried to understand her reasons, but I said to her, ‘Sarah, this is a very, very tough one to explain’. Sarah, I call her the queen of reinventions...
“I was thinking when she confided in me and my husband that she had cancer, we knew that three months before she went public, I was saying to her, at one point, because the publicity was so bad, because of Andrew and everything, I said to her sarcastically, ‘maybe you'll start talking about the cancer, and that would change your image’.
“We were thinking about it, then she did, and I think she did earn a lot of credit for doing it.”
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