Billie Piper has described her teenage years as a chart-topping singer as ‘unbelievably unsafe’ and ‘lonely’.The Doctor Who star had a number one in 1998 with Because We Want To when she was just 15, making her the youngest female artist to debut at the top of the singles chart.Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Billie said: ‘When I look back at it now I have my own children, it seems unbelievably unsafe.‘It felt desperate and lonely.’Billie moved away to London from her hometown of Swindon, a ‘small town environment’ she confessed to being ‘desperate to get out of’, while still in her mid-teens.The I Hate Suzie actor and co-creator credits her early marriage to radio DJ Chris Evans as ‘healing’.The pair tied.
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