LOS ANGELES — Sienna Miller has developed quite the reputation over the years, thank in large part to a string of high-profile relationship with the likes of Jude Law, Jamie Burke, Balthazar Getty and Rhys Ifans. However, the British actress insists the public's perception of her couldn't be more wrong.
"I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life," Miller reveals in the July issue of Vogue. "I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person—contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love."
The currently single Miller admits that the reputation that precedes her is "pretty bad." She also assumes much of the blame.
"On the whole, you know, I've made some bad choices and done some stupid things," she says.
Her relationship with Law was front and center in the tabloids, particularly during "Nannygate" as Miller likes to call it. It was then that Law famously cheated on her with his children's nanny, Daisy Wright.
"It's dangerous to bring this up," Miller says of their split. "I talked about him in an interview not long ago, saying that I still love him, and he was like, 'Please stop talking about it.' This was going to be the first interview where I was going to try to be guarded and detached, not give anything away, and actually I realize that it's irrelevant. You have to be yourself."
"That was a very pivotal time in my life, and I'm happy saying that," Miller continues. "It's a private moment when you get your heart broken for the first time, and that was the absolute antithesis of private. It couldn't have been more public!"
While painful, Miller admits the experience proved valuable in the end on several fronts.
"I think I discovered a whole new emotional depth that I didn't have access to before," she says. "When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth, and that's why actors tend to get better with age, I think."
Miller admits that she's made her fair share of mistakes while balancing fame at an early age. She was ridiculed last summer in the tabloids when she started dating Getty, a married father of four at the time. She has since turned to therapy as a means of seeking insight from the outside.
"I got to the point where I was doing things that I didn't necessarily think I was capable of as a person," she says. "And I wanted to be conscious of my actions. I think I was really naive and trusting and thinking that if you are true to yourself, that's enough, that's the best way to be. But actually, it's important to become more conscious."
Today, Miller appears poised to rewrite the old book on her. In August, she'll star in the most commercial film of her career, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra." She'll follow that by making her Broadway debut in playwright Patrick Marber's adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 "After Miss Julie." While much is changing, Miller plans to hold onto her free spirit, which she attributes to her early days with family.
"It was always very loving and open," she recalls of her upbringing. "I described my dad as a hippie once, which he's not, but in his essence he's got a bohemian approach to life. It wasn't like we were in a camper van running around with flowers in our hair, naked. But you could express any emotion; if you felt something, you could say it; if you needed to talk, you could. I think that nonjudgmental way of being raised maybe contributed to my free-spiritedness."
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