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13
March 2007
Billie
Piper Was Close To
Breaking
Point
Billie
Piper's
West End debut has
brought her close to
breaking point, she has
said.
The
24-year-old Doctor Who
star suffered attacks of
nerves in the run-up to
her opening night in
Treats last week.
She
missed performances
through illness and was
spotted apparently
sobbing on the shoulder
of her ex,
Chris
Evans.
Billie
Piper said the past few
days have been
"amazingly stressful".
"If
I start to think about
everything that
everybody writes about
me, I would probably
break - I'm just trying
something new and
there's nothing wrong
with that and, yes, it's
hard," she said. "It's
my first time on the
West End stage and I've
never done it before -
it's hardly surprising
that it's going to be
really terrifying."
Asked
whether she had
considered quitting the
show - as Stephen Fry
did in 1995 when he
walked out on West End
play Cell Mates and fled
the country - Billie
Piper replied: "I didn't
once think of abandoning
it, no. I couldn't do
that. But you know, I do
understand maybe why Fry
did. There have been
times when I've thought:
Oh God, I'd love to just
hop in my car and drive
away."
The
former pop star blamed
her recent absences from
the play on gastric flu.
She denied crying in the
recent photograph of her
with Evans, claiming she
was "squinting because
the sun was so bright."
And
she also scotched
rumours she is set to
marry new boyfriend
Laurence Fox, her
co-star in Treats,
saying: "No. I'm not
even divorced yet, so
that would be
impossible."
Billie
Piper split from Evans
in 2004 after three
years of marriage. She
is appearing in Treats
at the Garrick Theatre
with Fox and Chris
Marshall.
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