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Sienna Miller: I was spat on by paparazzi

2011-11-25 95 Dailymotion

EDITORS NOTE - EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> Actress Sienna Miller talked about her paranoia brought on by one British tabloid.<br/> The "Alfie" star was speaking at the Leveson inquiry into media practices in London on Thursday (November 24).<br/> Miller's private life and particularly her romantic liaisons have long been staple fodder for the tabloid press.<br/> She talked about the lengths photographers went to in order to get a reaction out of her.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Actress Sienna Miller, saying (English):<br/> "Anything from being spat at or verbally abused. Being jumped out when you get a shock or say some things to get emotional reaction and they seem to go to any lengths to try to upset you."<br/> She'd even gone so far as to accuse those closest to her of betraying by disclosing to the press her most intimate secrets.<br/> Miller accused the tabloids of keeping what she called a "web of surveillance" on her.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Actress Sienna Miller, saying (English):<br/> "I wanted to understand the extent of the information that they had on me. I wanted to know who knew, who had access to my telephone numbers, who had been listening to me."<br/> The actress won GBP35,000 pounds from the Sun and the now defunct News of the World in November 2008.<br/> She sued them for breaching her privacy.<br/> It was a similar story for "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling who said she had taken against newspapers about 50 times over breaches of privacy and misreporting.<br/> She said she was outraged when the intrusion even reached her children.<br/> She found a note from a journalist inside her then five-year-old daughter's school bag.<br/> Rowling wanted there to be a distinct difference between real journalism and tabloids.<br/> SOUNDBITE: JK Rowling, Author, saying (English):<br/> "Again, I think the point here is that, I, like a lot of people who have agreed to give evidence at this inquiry; we are not looking for special treatment. We are looking for normal treatment. I don't regard myself as entitled to more than. I am simply asking for the same as."<br/> The Leveson inquiry was set up in July and is expected to last a year.<br/> Cindy Martin, Reuters

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