British TV star Jeremy Clarkson lifted an injunction banning his ex-wife from claiming that he had had an affair with her after he had married someone else.
The Sun reported that, after his high court application, the Top Gear presenter said: "People can now believe her story or not."
Clarkson, 52, told The Sun that he and his current wife, Frances, decided the injunction was "pointless" and decided to lift it.
His first wife, Alexandra Hall, has claimed that they had continued to have sex after he married Frances, with whom he has three children.
Now that the injunction has been lifted, Hall can write about her claims.
Clarkson told the tabloid: "Injunctions don't work. They are pointless. If you have one, everyone on Twitter and the internet knows you've got it.
"But because I am bound by the same order, I can't speak about it or defend myself. There is an assumption that I am guilty because I can't say anything."
Hall was married to Clarkson for a year in 1989.
When he applied for the injunction, Clarkson, who is also a columnist for The Sun, said it would be "very distressing" if revelations were made about his sex life. The judge agreed and Hall was forbidden from writing about it.
Earlier this year, Clarkson denied he and Frances had separated when he moved out of the family home and into a London flat. There was speculation that he had had an affair with a Top Gear colleague.
Hall said through her agent Max Clifford: "I'm delighted the injunction has been withdrawn. It feels like a huge cloud has been lifted."
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