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Sadie Frost She told the High Court her ex-husband Jude Law suspected she was leaking stories to the media after the Daily Mail published an article about their 2003 divorce.
Ms Frost’s case involved 11 articles written about her which she claimed were Obtained through illegal information collection Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).
Sir, the 60-year-old actor joins Prince Harry Elton John and his husband David Furnish, activist Baroness Doreen Lawrencepolitician Sir Simon Hughes, actor Liz Hurley Legal action against ANL Voicemail hacks and leaks of private records.
At the time, she was divorcing Mr Law and told the court she knew certain articles came from “hacked conversations from my voicemail, I know that 100 per cent”.
“One thing about voicemail is you have to choose your words very carefully,” she said. “I’m going to be very precise about what I say. That’s why I know a lot of articles have been written about my voicemails to Jude [Law]”.
“It’s awful to have the man you love think you’re leaking stories,” the actress told the High Court. “Our relationship had been damaged for years and it was a difficult time to co-parent.”
In heated exchange, Ms Frost said her parents were “disgusting” The goal is daily mail reporterher unwell father was contacted at the hospital and her mother came to her home.
Actor apologizes for getting emotional during trial’Take you back to that terrible time“.
She burst into tears in the witness box as she recalled an incident reported in the media in 2002, in which her two-year-old daughter discovered ecstasy pills in a Soho venue.
“I wasn’t with any friends, I was isolated, hiding at home, miserable and trying to be a good mom,” she said.
The article included a quote she said must have come from the phone conversation, and an emotional telling the court: “This will always be my poor girl Iris’ life… it’s such a shame… it’s making me so sick.”
Last week, David Sherborne, representing the claimants, said Posted on Sunday Journalist Katie Nicholl wrote a draft article containing details about Ms Frost that “not even her sisters or mother knew”.
He said that in late 2003, Ms Frost had an unexpected ectopic pregnancy with her then-boyfriend Jackson Scott, for which she had to undergo surgery at a private hospital.
Mr Sherborne said only Mr Scott and “perhaps her closest friends” knew about the pregnancy. He added: “All of this was documented by Ms Nicol in a draft of the article.”
The barrister continued: “How would they know she was being treated unless they had access to her voicemail or medical records?”
In a witness statement at the trial, Ms Frost said: “I’m going through a divorce and it’s difficult enough without stories like this coming out.”
She told the court she was “shocked and appalled” that her medical details were obtained through doctors. When asked if she could provide the information herself, she responded: “Oh my gosh, never.”
At one stage of the cross-examination, ANL’s Antony White KC said Ms Frost’s family providing information to the media “might have encouraged” her friends to do the same.
“I don’t agree with that 100 percent,” she replied.
Frost said in a witness statement that she was unaware of her potential claim against the publisher until 2019 and was “mortified” when she was told her landline was tapped because it was “my lifeline”.
“The stories they wrote were offensive to me, my friends and family, and my very young children, and they made me believe that I couldn’t trust anyone,” she said.
She also denied trying to get her close friend Kate Moss to join her claim against the publisher, saying it was “100 per cent untrue”.
The ANL’s Mr White KC told the court: “During the time of Ms Frost’s troubled marriage to Jude Law, Ms Frost’s inner circle was and is considered to be ‘porous’, with the media frequently reporting on this and their subsequent divorce.”
He continued: “Ms. Frost’s family also regularly provided information about the private lives of Ms. Frost and Mr. Rowe to the media without any compunction.”
Ms Hurley and the Duke of Sussex both became emotional as they testified in the witness box last week about the impact the alleged intrusion had had on their lives.
Harry spent around two hours on Wednesday fielding questions from ANL lawyers in a series of frosty exchanges, before being asked by his lawyer Mr Sherborne how he felt about the proceedings.
The Duke said: “It is fundamentally wrong for us to go through this again when all we want is an apology and accountability.
“It was a horrific experience.”
His voice sounded emotional, as if he was on the verge of tears, as he continued: “They continue to hunt me, and they are making my wife’s life miserable, Your Majesty.”
In court, the Duke said the case against ANL felt like a “recurrent traumatic experience” and “a replay of the past”, adding: “I never believed my life would be commercialized by these people.”
He later said, “The suggestion that I don’t have any right to privacy is disgusting.”
ANL strongly denies wrongdoing and is defending the charges.
Judge Nicklin’s trial is due to conclude at the end of March, with a written judgment to be handed down at a later date.