Roger Moore called WHICH Bond co-star 'A diseased sex maniac with unnatural lusts'?

It was one of the last major public appearances from the beloved star, who died this week after a short battle with cancer.

Moore had a fine reputation as a raconteur with a sharp tongue and a gift for memorable one-liners. He displayed all that and ‘Moore” when he shocked an audience at London’s Southbank Centre last November.

The actor described Villechaize as follows: “He was a very small man and he used to touch me and I used to say, ‘Don’t touch me. You are diseased.’ I wasn’t being cruel about his size, it was just that he was a sex maniac. He had a lust for ladies, unnatural.”

The Bond legend also revealed that his diminutive co-star, who was 3’11 tall, boasted of numerous sexual adventures with prostitutes, although some of them refused both his advances and his money.

The 89-year-old recalled: “When we were in Hong Kong he would find girls in girly clubs and go with a flashlight, ‘You, you, not you.'”

In a staggering evocation of the bygone days of promiscuity and sexism, Moore added that he asked Villechaize how many women he had slept during the film shoot alone. 

Sadly Villechaize did not enjoy a long and prosperous life full of anecdotes like Roger Moore. After almost two decades in the limelight his life had a tragic ending. 

The French actor of English and Filipino descent shot to fame after the release of the 1974 Bond film, in which he played the villain Nick Nack. The classic Ian Fleming spy film also starred Maud Adams and Britt Ekland.

He found a second round of success when he starred alongside Ricardo Montalban as Mr Roarke’s assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island from 1978. He was fired in 1984 after repeatedly clashing with the show’s producers over his pay demands and unwelcome propositioning of female cast members and crew.

Villechaize’s life came to a tragic end when he shot himself in the garden of his Hollywood home in 1993, aged 50.

He left a suicide note which read: “I love everybody. Nobody is to blame for this.”

His girlfriend Kathy Self revealed that he had been suffering from chronic pain due to the stresses his normal-sized organs were putting on his small body.