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02
July 2006
Billie
Piper To Refuse Divorce
Cash
Doctor
Who star
Billie
Piper
has said she will not be
seeking money from her
estranged husband
Chris
Evans
in any divorce
settlement.
"I'm
not taking a penny from
him," the 23-year-old
actress said. "I think
that's
disgusting."
Billie
Piper said she and Evans
had "saved each other
from our worlds of
madness".
However,
she admitted regretting
that her parents heard
about their wedding in
Las
Vegas
in 2001 on the radio,
rather than being told
in person.
"We
didn't speak for a
while, although they
understand now that at
the time I had to be
selfish," she
said.
"I
didn't want them to
question it because in
my head it was perfect,
the first time in years
I felt
happy."
The
actress is about to
leave her role as Rose
in Doctor Who, a
decision a BBC spokesman
said was taken "jointly"
with Piper.
"The
longer I stayed, the
more scared I'd be of
leaving because it's so
comfortable and nice,"
she said. "I'm utterly
grateful for the whole
experience, but you have
to take care of yourself
and do what you feel is
right. We filmed in
Wales for nine months
and I didn't like being
away from home. I enjoy
being domesticated,
washing-up and cooking
dinner for my
boyfriend."
In
the interview, Piper
also admitted she had
tried drugs as a
teenager, "but it never
became a
problem".
"I
had my head in the
clouds, was mad,
neurotic and
self-destructive, a very
different character to
the one you see today,"
she said.
She
also conceded the
six-figure deal for her
forthcoming
autobiography might
appear "ridiculous" to
some.
But
she justified it by
saying: "Someone else is
writing a book about me,
so I'm going to tell my
own story. I hope it's
an inspiration to young
girls who constantly ask
how I did it. I'll strip
it all bare and let them
decide if it's still
something they want to
do," she
said.
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