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A man has gone on national television claiming that painkillers turned him from a hot-blooded heterosexual to being attracted to men - but his dad claims otherwise.

Scott Purdy from Louth, described himself as a hot-blooded heterosexual when he appeared on the ITV show This Morning, saying he enjoyed dating women before he started taking painkiller Pregabalin.

He is adamant that he became homosexual after taking the medication for his broken foot, and was always straight beforehand.

Scott believes the drug caused him to lose his sexual attraction to women and prompted him to dump his girlfriend because he realised he was attracted to men.

But his dad has now claimed in an interview with national media that his son had sexual relations with men before even taking the drug - and he always believed his son to be bisexual.

He said: “I noticed my libido for women had gone and I was wanting male attention.

“I was with a girlfriend I had been with for around six months. I had never been interested in men. When I was younger I was a little bit curious but a couple of weeks after I started taking it I turned around and said I didn't find her physically attractive anymore. She knew I was taking Pregabalin.

“I said to her, I didn’t really know what’s happening to me and I told her I like men and I just can’t be with you.

“She was relatively understanding, as understanding as you could possibly be."

However, Scott's Father, Nigel, has stated that he always believed his son was bisexual as he had sexual relations with a man when he was 17.

In an interview with MailOnline, Nigel said that he had always known that his son experimented in same sex relationships when he was a teenager - and didn't notice a change in his behaviour after taking the medication.

He said: "I know my son and we have always just assumed he was bisexual, as it turns out he is gay. It's just the way he was, even when he was younger.

"It was his general mannerisms. A parent knows their child. I don't know why he has waited to come out with all this. His whole life has been a lie.

"He has told me in the past that he admitted that he started experimenting with a lad when he was younger."

Scott's step-mother, Gail, claimed that Scott had slept with at least one man when he was 17 and said that the painkillers had not altered his sexuality.