LONDON, April 30 (UPI) -- The former mistress of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says she had no choice but to go public with details of their affair.
In a television statement prior to the publication of an extensive interview in the Mail on Sunday, Tracey Temple said she had been the victim of lies and "had to let people know the truth," the London Observer reported.
Prescott denounced the Mail for allegedly paying Temple $450,000 for the interview and vowed to take the newspaper to the Press Complaints Commission, the Observer reported.
He said "much of her recollections ... are simply untrue, and are clearly motivated by a desire to maximize financial gain."
Temple said she had decided to go public because she felt abandoned by Prescott and his aides after news of the affair broke.
"I feel I have been used and am being used as a scapegoat," she said. "They have abandoned me and hung me out to dry. I have been left completely alone."
