Ex-James Bond actor Roger Moore claims his first two wives attacked him

Former James Bond actor Roger Moore has claimed he was a victim of domestic violence during his first two marriages.

The 84-year-old British star, who first played agent 007 in 1973's Live and Let Die, said his former wives Doorn Van Steyn and Dorothy Squires subjected him to a string of attacks in both of their doomed marriages.

Van Steyn, an ice skater who married Moore when he was 19, once threw a teapot at him, he told television presenter Piers Morgan in an interview due to be broadcast today.

"She would scratch me," the longest-running Bond told Morgan's Life Stories chat show. "My mother was always petrified when I went home to see that I had more scars."

Moore, who is on his fourth marriage, said Van Steyn had even attacked a doctor who was treating a cut on his hand.

"She said to him, 'Aren't you going to do anything?' and punched him," he recalled. "Which made a change, because normally she punched me."