Lidia Thorpe: ‘My father threw me under the bus on Andrew Bolt’

Senator Lidia Thorpe has responded to her father’s sensational claim she is a “very racist person”.

Senator Lidia Thorpe has responded to her father’s sensational claims that she was “a very racist person” in an online interview.

Speaking with Tom Tanuki in an interview posted to YouTube, Ms Thorpe said her father had reached out to her after his controversial interview.

“My father has been texting me all morning telling me he loves me, even though he threw me under the bus on Andrew Bolt,” she said.

“We all have our own complications, but I’m a loving person.”

Roy Illingworth told Sky News Australia on April 20 he thought Ms Thorpe had “changed over the years” and was “disappointed” by the way she had “abandoned” her English and Irish heritage.

Lidia Thorpe.

Ms Thorpe’s dad Roy Illingworth.

He said he was “a bit disappointed in the way she’s been carrying on lately”.

“She doesn’t acknowledge any of her white side.

“Because after all, she does have English background as well as Irish, the convict side of the English.”

It comes as Ms Thorpe revealed the AFP had warned her to “be aware” of potential hate attacks following the presence of neo-Nazis at an anti-trans rally.

“It’s young whitefullas who think that they can threaten me and shut me down … they try to intimidate me,” she said.