'X Factor' hopeful responds to 'liar' row

X Factor hopeful Alan Turner has spoken about the controversy surrounding his audition for the first time.

Turner told the judges that he had been put into foster care at the age of four and did not know his real parents, but his father Alan Snr has claimed that he was lying.

The 23-year-old aspiring singer has now blamed the show's editors for causing confusion about his story.

"It wasn't a true reflection of my life. I felt like a lot of the points were glossed over," Alan told The Mirror. "But if they did all of it, then it would take up the whole show. There is so much more to my life."

Turner confirmed that his parents split when he was 18 months old. Three years later, his mother Debbie Liles handed him over to the same foster mother who had raised her.

Revealing the true extent of his traumatic upbringing, he said: "When I was four my mum went out for the night and left me with a gay male friend who sexually abused me. Now I'm older I feel that could be one of the reasons she felt she was not capable of looking after me."

Alan Snr has insisted that he is in regular telephone contact with his son, but the budding X Factor star has denied the claims.

He added: "I haven't seen my dad since I was in my teens and that meeting lasted just a few minutes. But I have never called him dad and won't call him dad to this day."