New Zealand's National MP Maggie Barry says she saw the nasty side of entertainer Rolf Harris when interviewing him in the 1980s.
The former broadcaster told RadioLive on Friday she interviewed the entertainer when she was working in Palmerston North and she was in her mid-20s.
"In the studio, he started the old wandering hand thing," she said.
"For a few moments I saw his really nasty side."
She said she stood up for herself and did not tolerate the inappropriate behaviour, which was at the minor end of the scale, but "he had a dark side", she said.
Harris could be sent to jail for a decade when he is sentenced in a London court on Friday for indecently assaulting four girls in the UK.
The 84-year-old will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, where he was convicted of 12 indecent assault charges on Monday.
Harris's youngest victim was just seven or eight years old when she was attacked in the late 1960s at a community centre near Portsmouth.
The jury in the Harris trial was unanimous when finding the Australian guilty of 12 indecent assaults against four girls between 1968 and 1986.
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