(London) Actress Sienna Miller feels ‘she’s got it entirely right’ after settling dispute with tabloid publisher The Sun she accused of hacking her phone to reveal her pregnancy, her lawyer said Thursday.
The 39-year-old star had taken legal action against the newspaper’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), accusing the Sun to have hacked her voicemail to learn of her pregnancy in 2005, and revealed this information when she had not even warned her relatives.
She “can never forgive what they have done to her, but at least hopes to hold them accountable,” her lawyer David Sherborne said, in a statement read on behalf of her client at the High Court in London on Thursday.
The High Court has not rendered a ruling on the phone hacking charges against the Sun, who denied having acted illegally.
Both parties agreed to settle their dispute with a settlement that awards “substantial damages” to Mr.me Miller, without however admitting any responsibility of NGN.
Mme Miller believes, however, that “this amounts to an admission of responsibility on the part of The Sun and she therefore considers that she is entirely right to have brought this action, ”according to her lawyer.
In an out-of-court statement, the actress explained that she wanted a trial, but had given up on it at the cost it would have represented.
“I wanted to expose the crime that is at the heart of this business […] Unfortunately, this legal remedy is not available to me or to anyone who does not have countless millions of pounds to spend on their quest for justice, ”she said.
She said she was “deeply upset and shocked” by what she “learned about the conduct of journalists and senior management in The Sun and News International ”during the proceedings. “They all thought they were above the law,” she added.
“Their behavior broke me, damaged my reputation – sometimes irreparably – and led me to accuse my family and friends of giving out information for money, which left me in a bad state. intense paranoia and fear, ”said the actress.
In addition to Sienna Miller, around 15 celebrities have struck deals with NGN after they filed phone-hacking lawsuits against the publishing group of News Of The World, newspaper now disappeared.
British tabloids are regularly questioned for their methods of obtaining scoop on personalities, including members of the royal family.
Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle won a court battle last week against the publisher of Mail on Sunday, the Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) group. British justice has in fact rejected the appeal made by this group against his conviction for the publication of a letter written to his father.
Meghan Markle hailed this “victory”, according to her to “reshape a tabloid industry which pushes people to be cruel and takes advantage of the lies and the pain they create”.