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Lying fast asleep in bed next to boyfriend Justin Lee Collins, Anna Larke suddenly felt a sharp jab in her back.

“Wake up, turn over and f****** face me,” growled the star of The Friday Night Project.

Desperate to avoid sparking another row Anna did as she was told.

“Justin thought it was disrespectful if I didn’t face him,’ explains the 38-year-old, almost apologetically.

“It was OK for him to sleep turned away from me, I just had to sleep with my arms around him.”

Sleeping the correct way had become just another of the vast catalogue of controlling demands Collins inflicted on Anna during a mentally abusive relationship which led to the comedian this week being found guilty of harassing her and making her fear violence.

He was sentenced to 140 hours’ community service.

Now, Anna is talking for the first time since the court case about the full, horrific nature of the abuse and how she fell victim to Collins’ warped mind games.

And on the Mirror website today there are recordings of Collins’ vile rants at his terrified girlfriend – taped secretly by Anna to strengthen her resolve to stay away from him as she found herself drawn back each time she tried to break away.

TAPE ONE

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In her harrowing interview, former PR worker Anna tells how within weeks of moving into a flat with Collins in Kew, West London, in January, 2011, he was dominating her life.

Anna says: “He stopped me talking to my old friends and family, he bought my clothes, told me what to wear, how to have my hair.

“I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion or do anything he wasn’t happy about.

"And the merest thing I did could upset him and then he would go into rages.

“I wasn’t allowed to even look at another man in the street.

"In one of his rages which I taped on my phone he yelled at me, ‘When you are out with me you look at the ground, the tree, any inanimate object, but not any other human being, you slag’.

“He called me a slut, a whore, a fat slag, a dog. Anything to make me feel bad about myself. And it worked. I felt worthless.”

Anna’s life became dominated by fear.

She says: “I was scared all the time. And when he started slapping me I was scared of being hit too.

"I was most scared of his rages, of upsetting him and of him leaving me.

"He used to say he wanted to be worshipped. He wanted me to adore him, which I did. But because he knew I adored him he could treat me how he wanted.”

(Image: Tim Anderson)

Anna had begun seeing Collins, 38, in November 2010, as he was in the process of splitting with wife, Karen, who lived in Bristol with their two young children.

Anna and Collins first met in 2007 and had a casual ­relationship for a year which fizzled out when he was caught with another woman by a Sunday newspaper.

But when the pair met again as his marriage broke down, it was clear this time the relationship was serious.

Anna says: “He was the perfect boyfriend at first. I’d really liked him for so long but now he was single and with me it was everything I had ever dreamed about.”

Too quickly though Anna’s dream was to become a nightmare.

She adds: “We’d only been together a couple of weeks when he said he wanted to make a record of every man I had ever been intimate with.

"So he got this large Pukka Pad notepad and asked me ­question after question about everything I’d ever done.

“It went on night after night, us sitting on the couch and me being asked the same questions over and over again.

“It wasn’t just the names of the blokes but detail like who kissed who first? Did he touch your t**s? Did you give him a **** job? Who got on top? Did you use a condom?

"It was like he was really enjoying it but it was so humiliating.

“If I refused to answer he would say, ‘We’re going to sit here all night until we have done this’.

"He’d say it was important for our relationship and it was because he loved me so much and was crazy about me so I went along with it, even though I was panicking and crying because it felt the weirdest thing ever.

"The level of detail he wanted to know was extraordinary.”

The notepad completed, Collins stashed it in a wardrobe but often referred back to it.

Anna says: “Every now and again he’d go quiet and then ask me about a particular ex-boyfriend.

"Then he’d check my answer with the notepad and if I’d got any detail wrong he’d fly into a rage, saying I was lying to him and I was a slut or a whore.” Collins also started to control how Anna dressed.

She says: “He wouldn’t let me wear flat shoes and said women should wear heels and he didn’t like the clothes I wore so he’d take me shopping and buy me loads of things.

“He bought me one pair of amazing ­Alexander McQueen shoes but when I put them on he said I walked like a ­transvestite.

"In the evenings if we were going out he’d go to the Starbucks at the end of our road and wait for me.

“As I walked towards him he’d be sitting with his arms folded looking me up and down.

"If he didn’t like the way I looked, he’d say, ‘No, don’t like it. Go back and change’. And I would.

“He said he didn’t like the way I talked and he was always calling me fat. He even didn’t like some of the words I used.

“I’d make my own soup but if I called it gruel, a word which for some reason he hated, it would send him into a rage.”

Within weeks of moving in together, Collins was also isolating Anna from her friends and family.

“He made me get a new mobile number and told me not to contact any of the friends from my old life,” she says.

“I even told my brother I wasn’t allowed to text him any more.

“He made me close down my Facebook site, my Twitter. I wasn’t even allowed my own email, we had to have a joint one.

“Then he banned me from ringing my mum, who lives in Hertfordshire, unless he was in the room.

"Mum’s Greek and often we’d talk to each other in Greek on the phone but that had to stop too.”

Concerned about Anna’s welfare her mum and brother tried to impress upon her that the relationship wasn’t healthy.

“But I knew that,” she says.

(Image: Hertfordshire Police)

“I knew about domestic abuse and the way he was acting wasn’t right but I kept thinking if I did what he wanted then he wouldn’t get so angry with me. More than anything I was petrified he would leave me.”

Meanwhile Collins’ demands to be worshipped grew more extreme.

Twice a day Anna rubbed cream over his body to treat his psoriasis skin ­condition and once a day she would give him a full body massage.

She adds: “If we were watching a film I would have to brush his hair while he sat in front of me.

"I felt like I was just an accessory to his life.”

Collins would also fly into a rage if Anna went to bed before him and she quickly began to suffer headaches and dizziness from exhaustion.

She says: “I’d stay up till four in the morning with him, then the next day he’d lie in and I’d have to prepare his ­breakfast.

"I think he was trying to sleep-deprive me so I couldn’t think straight. I was constantly exhausted.”

A level of physical abuse also entered the relationship.

On a holiday to Miami, Collins went into a rage when tired Anna said she wanted to leave a nightclub.

“He just flipped,” she says. “He got so angry he was kind of growling at me.

"And then he started pinching my arm. He was doing it in front of people but no one said anything and I didn’t know what to do.

“It was really, really hurting. It was like it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks and I thought, ‘He’s an abuser’.

“I couldn’t believe he had laid his hands on me like that. I was ­devastated.”

Photos of Anna and Collins

Anna Larke video interviews

Anna on the shocking recordings she made

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Anna on the control Collins had on her life

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Part two in the Sunday Mirror tomorrow: 'He towered over me saying I'd betrayed his trust... I was in fear'