Billie Piper has revealed that her former classmate Amy Winehouse was bullied at school because she often did “strange things” and “liked to push buttons.”
The actress, 41, said late Back to Black singer Winehouse was “different to any other girl” at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theater School, but revealed that “not many” of the other students treated her kindly. .
And Piper says education “wasn’t the easiest path” for the “super smart” and “super bright” Winehouse.
The British star told Jessie and Lennie Ware Table Manners podcast had moved to London at age 12 to attend school based in Marble Arch, just two years before signing his first record deal.
When asked who her ‘peers’ at school were, the actress said: ‘Amy Winehouse, she was always cheeky. She was always like that, you know, she did abstract things and I really loved her.
Billie Piper has revealed that her former classmate Amy Winehouse was bullied at school because she often did “strange things” and “liked to push buttons.”
The actress said Winehouse was “different from any other girl” at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theater School, but revealed that “not many” of the other students treated her kindly.
‘She could do anything. She was super smart and super bright, unlike other girls at that school.’
The actress continued, “She got bullied a lot at school because, you know, she did her own thing and she liked to push buttons and do weird things.”
“I had a lot of room for that, but not many of the girls did, so it wasn’t the easiest trip.”
Piper and Winehouse, who died from alcohol poisoning in 2011 aged 27, attended the independent performing arts school, named after its founder and director, Sylvia Young OBE.
Pop star Dua Lipa and Hollywood actor Nicholas Hault are also among the famous alumni of the prestigious drama school.
The East London facility costs £15,000 per year for day students and £25,000-30,000 per year for boarding students.
Piper plays BBC producer Sam McAlister in the upcoming film Scoop, a biographical drama documenting Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview with journalist Emily Maitlis.
The film comes as the actress, a mother of three, admits she has embarked on a new chapter in her life after “having a great time in London”, the city she still calls home.
The British star told Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners podcast that she had moved to London when she was 12 to attend the Marble Arch-based school.
Piper has been in the entertainment industry since she was a child, starting out as a singer and signing her first record deal at the age of 14 (pictured in 1998).
The actress has been busy promoting Scoop, which dramatizes the interview between Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis, in which she plays BBC producer Sam McAlister (pictured)
Speaking in the latest issue of FunnyPiper says she is “more honest” about who she is, particularly in the context of a career that began when she was just 14 years old and under pressure to project a misleading image in the media.
“A lot of the famous years of my childhood and then the Doctor I was… be good, behave well, be a good role model, don’t say dark things, be cheerful, don’t smoke, all that,” he said. remembered.
‘It didn’t align with my thoughts. My thoughts were much darker than that.
The actress also admits to making major lifestyle changes after taking advantage of London’s raucous party scene throughout her career.
“I have experienced it very hard in London,” he explained. ‘I’ve really flushed this town. The place will eat you up if you don’t make a change at some point.
“There is always a fork in the road at some point in your life in London. And you have to make a decision about it.
‘Are you going to let the city take you down or are you going to get out? “I have kids, so it seems like a very different place than it was.”
The actress is the mother of her sons Winston, 12, and Eugene, eight, with her ex-husband Laurence Fox and her daughter Tallulah, four, with her ex-partner Johnny Lloyd.
Winehouse with her father Mitch outside her London home in 2008. The singer died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged just 27.