'It was in a busy room full of people so it was quite discreetly done and you don't kind of realise what's happening at the time, especially when you're 14 and it's the first time you've ever been in a studio and you're very excited.
The 38-year-old said she felt like 'slapping his hand away'.
'My classmates, we all made a joke of it afterwards for years, but we didn't really bring it up to any adult and I don't know why, actually,' she added.
Miss Fernandez, now a disability rights campaigner, said people were possibly afraid of speaking out against a prominent figure.
'He was a great fundraiser and all of these things, so possibly people didn't want to say negative things about him. Maybe they didn't think they would be believed.
'It's a predatory behaviour and it's a bad, bad behaviour. And he's now dead and what can we do?'
Ms Fernandez is the latest in a string of women to make claims against Savile and it follows the revelation that he was given his own keys to high-security Broadmoor mental hospital.
The police investigation into Jimmy Savile’s abuse of young girls has tripled in scale with officers now following up 340 separate lines of inquiry, Scotland Yard revealed last night.
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