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Disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins described his child sex abuse as 'megalolz' even as he sat in prison.

After admitting abusing children, including babies, in court the paedophile added: "I don't know what everyone is getting worked up about."

He also claimed he was not a paedophile but was pleading guilty to avoid a trial.

Watkins has been jailed for 29 years for sexually abusing children.

Watkins made two phone calls to a female friend from Parc Prison in Bridgend after his guilty pleas.

On November 27, the day after he admitted he was a paedophile, he said of the court hearing: "It was, like, either me go up there and say 'Come on, it wasn't that bad, nobody got hurt', I do my charm. Or do I end up making things worse for myself? Or do I just say I was off my head and can't remember?"

Discussing his possible sentence, he added: "I'm going to put a statement on [December] 18th now just to say it was megalolz, I don't know what everyone is getting so freaked out about."

"Megalolz" is a more exaggerated version of "lol", meaning "laugh out loud".

In another conversation the following day he said: "It's so hard. There's a lot of ****ing meaningless bull**** like chat that I did to show off when I was ****ing off my head.

"There was no medical evidence, nobody was harmed at all.

"I'm not a paedophile, I'm not. You know I plead (sic) guilty just to avoid a trial, not realising 'Hang on, that makes me look a bit guilty' but I would never harm anybody."

When asked if he would still issue a statement saying his conduct was "megalolz" he replied: "No, it's just lolz now."

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