LONDON — Sienna Miller says it’s difficult escaping the news of her recent break-up with Rhys Ifans.
“It’s everywhere,” she tells London’s The Times. “I try not to read it, but it’s hard not to. I don’t want to go, ‘Woe is me in suffering’, but it’s not easy for me.”
The 26-year-old actress began dating the Welsh star last year, but Miller says she already has plans to sell the Central London home that the former couple shared together.
“I want to sell that house,” she says. “I don’t like it any more. I’m over it.”
Miller admits that there’s good and bad whenever her relationships are front and center in the tabloids, but she says she’s going to start closing the door on her personal life in the future.
“I have this habit, I’m such a people pleaser, and out of insecurity I think that all people care about is my private life,” she says. “They don’t want to read about my opinions of film or f***ing politics. I feel like I’ve indulged that need for approval for too long. It’s no one’s business any more. It’s too hurtful. I have to learn to censor myself.”
“It started with my relationship with Jude [Law]. Yes, it increases your visibility. Yes, being on the cover of a magazine appeals to studios. But it plays against your work,” she adds. “A lot of people still feel I’m not a proper actress.”
In her new film, “The Edge of Love,” Miller shares several intimate moments on screen with her friend and co-star, Keira Knightley. Miller admits she sexually experimented with other girls as a teen attending a Heathfield boarding school in Ascot.
“It was a great school, and it made me learn how to share and to understand women,” she says. “We’d have the odd snog together. It wasn’t all the time, but, you know, who hasn’t dabbled?”
Today, Miller says her life is “exquisite. I’m not victimizing myself, I’m not this tragic figure.”
“My life is privileged,” she adds. “And it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be. I make decisions. I take responsibility for them. And I f*** up.”
