Sienna Miller Was So Traumatized by Phone Hacking Scandal She ‘Blacked Out’
variety.comK.J. Yossman Sienna Miller says she was left “traumatized” by alleged phone hacking to the point she “blacked out.” It was in 2005 that news broke Miller’s then partner, Jude Law, was having an affair with his children’s nanny.
The scandal dominated headlines at the time. In a new BBC documentary, “Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial,” the actor reveals that two days after the news broke she found out she was pregnant.
A short while later, she alleges she received a call from British tabloid The Sun saying they knew about the pregnancy and wanted to break the story.
Miller’s then-publicist, Ciara Parkes, who also features in the doc, alleges the call about the pregnancy came from The Sun’s former editor, Rebekah Brooks. (According to the BBC, The Sun’s publisher News Group (NGN) denies this account and says Brooks was aware of any unlawful information gathering). “I had to tell Sienna that [the story about the pregnancy] had come out,” Parkes says in the doc. “She broke down.
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