Warne admits to 'talking dirty'

SYDNEY, JUNE 16. Shane Warne admitted today he had ``talked dirty'' in phone calls to a British woman but said she had done the same and denied it was sexual harassment.

``She was talking dirty on the phone to me and I reciprocated,'' he told Channel Nine television.

``It has all been pretty much one-sided saying that I was leaving dirty messages and all those types of things and I think most disappointing thing is that she was reciprocating and laughing with her friends about it but now she's decided to go public with it and try to crucify me.''

Warne had been tight-lipped since a London newspaper last Saturday accused him of harassing a 22-year-old nurse with ``disgusting'' phone messages. Donna Wright, 22, told the Daily Mirror that Warne harassed her with a series of unwanted messages to her mobile telephone. She said Warne called her when she spurned his advances at a Leicester nightclub.

Warne said he would never harass anyone and his wife was standing by him.

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