Porn fetish Supreme Court judge was 'raving alcoholic' ... until he quit booze and went downhill, says ex-girlfriend

Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice caught in a long running sexual harassment fight, has been described by an ex-girlfriend as 'raving alcoholic' with po fetish - who then went downhill.

Lawyer Lillian McEwen dated Thomas before his appointment to the Supreme Court and told CNN's Larry King Live show that she believed a woman who had accused him of sexual harrassment in 1991, because she knew him.

Thomas was accused by former colleague Anita Hill during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearing for appointment to the Supreme Court's nine-man elite.

He denied the allegations, which threatened to derail his appointment, and described it at the time as a kind of 'lynching'.

The accusation related to the 1980s when they worked together at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Thomas was later appointed to his high-profile position, however, the case has resurfaced after Thomas's wife Virginia, left an message on Hill's answering machine asking her to apologise for 'what you did with my husband'.

A furious Hill passed the message to the FBI.

Now a former girlfriend of Thomas's has waded into the argument because, she says, she was initially 'tricked' into commenting on the story by a newspaper reporter and wanted to give her side of the story in full detail.

Lillian McEwen had never previously spoken publicly about her relationship with Thomas but gave a live televised interview too the CNN show Larry King Live.

Pen portrait: Lillian McEwen, a former girlfriend of Thomas's, gave an unflattering description of him during a live TV interview

McEwen, a lawyer, dated Thomas for several years before he was nominated to the Supreme Court and painted a distinctly negative picture of the man.

She said that when they first met, Thomas may have been a 'raving alcoholic' and that who used poography to help fulfill sexual fantasies.

However, when Thomas gave up alcohol, she said, instead of improving he 'went backwards' and became an angry, obsessive man who bullied his son.

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