Sadie Frost reveals ex-husband Jude Law thought she was leaking stories to Daily Mail publisher
Sadie Frost told the Supreme Court that her ex-husband Jude Law suspected him of leaking stories to the press after reports about them appeared in the Daily Mail during their divorce in 2003.
“It sucks when the man you love thinks you’re leaking stories,” the actress told the Supreme Court. “Our relationship had been devastated for years, and co-parenting during this time was very difficult.”
Ms Frost’s case relates to 11 articles published about her which she claims were obtained through illegal collection of information by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). The 60-year-old actor joins Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and husband David Furnish, campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence, politician Sir Simon Hughes and actor Liz Hurley in launching a lawsuit against ANL over the hacking of voicemails and theft of private recordings.
In a heated exchange, Ms Frost said it was “disgusting” that her parents were being targeted. Daily Mail Journalists contacted his sick father in the hospital, and his mother was on the doorstep of his house.
The actor apologized for getting emotional, saying the hearing “takes you through a very scary time.”
She burst into tears in the witness box as she recalled a 2002 incident, reported in the media, about her then two-year-old daughter finding an ecstasy tablet in a Soho venue.
“I wasn’t with any friends, I was isolated, stuck at home, distressed, and trying to be a good mother,” she says.
The article included a quote he said must have come from a phone call, where he emotionally told the court: “This has been in my poor daughter Iris’ life forever… it’s so humiliating… it made me so sick.”
She was going through a divorce from fellow actor Jude Law at the time and told the court she knew some of the articles “came from hacked conversations from my voicemails and I know that 100 per cent.”
“One thing about voicemails is that you have to choose your words pretty carefully,” he said.
“I would be very specific about what I said, so I knew a lot of the articles were about voicemails I sent to Jude. [Law]”
David Sherborne, representing the plaintiffs, said last week: mail on sunday Journalist Katie Nicholl wrote a draft of an article containing details about Mrs. Frost that “not even her sisters or her mother knew”.
He said that in late 2003, Ms Frost suffered an unplanned ectopic pregnancy from her then-boyfriend Jackson Scott, for which she had to undergo surgery at a private hospital.
Mr Sherborne said only Mr Scott and “perhaps his closest friends” knew about the pregnancy. He added: “All of this was recorded by Ms Nicholl in the draft article.”
The attorney continued: “How did they know he was receiving treatment unless they had access to his voicemail or medical records?”
In her witness statement at the hearing, Ms Frost said: “I was going through a difficult enough divorce without a story like this coming to light.”
He told the court he was “shocked and appalled” that his medical information had been obtained through doctors. When asked if he could provide this information himself, he replied: “Oh my God, never.”
At one stage in cross-examination, ANL’s Antony White KC suggested that members of Ms Frost’s family giving information to the press would “encourage” her friends to do the same.
He responded: “I disagree with that 100 percent.”
In his witness statement, Frost said he did not know he had a potential claim against the broadcaster until 2019 and was “embarrassed” when he was told his landline was tapped because it was “a lifeline for me”.
She said: “The stories they wrote violated me, my friends, my family, and my children who were still very young, and they made me believe I couldn’t trust anyone.”
She also denied trying to get close friend Kate Moss to agree with her claim against the broadcaster, stating it was “100% false”.
Mr White KC, for ANL, told the court: “Mrs Frost’s circle was and was known to be ‘leaky’ at a time when her marriage to Jude Law was in trouble, and this and their subsequent divorce were frequently reported in the media.”
He continued: “Ms.
Both Ms Hurley and the Duke of Sussex became emotional in the witness box last week as they gave evidence about the impact the alleged break-in had on their lives.
Harry spent nearly two hours answering questions from ANL’s lawyer on Wednesday, when his lawyer, Mr Sherborne, asked how the trial had made him feel.
The duke said: “It is fundamentally wrong to put us in this situation again when all we want is an apology and accountability.
“This is a terrible experience.”
He continued, emotionally and as if he was about to cry: “They continue to come after me, they have turned my wife’s life into a complete dungeon, my Lord.”
In court, the duke said the case against ANL felt like a “repetitive traumatic experience” and a “repeat of the past”, adding: “I have never believed that my life was off season being commercialized by these people.”
He later said that “the claim that I do not have any right to privacy is disgusting.”
ANL has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and is defending the allegations.
The hearing before Mr Justice Nicklin is scheduled to conclude at the end of March, with a written decision to be issued at a later date.
