Billie Piper says childhood friend Amy Winehouse was bullied at school

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Billie Piper has seemed again on her childhood friendship with Amy Winehouse, claiming that the late singer was “bullied” by different college students at their school for standing out.

Piper appeared on the newest episode (3 April) of the Table Manners podcast, hosted by the singer Jessie Ware and her mom, Lennie.

In their dialog, actor and former popstar Piper spoke about shifting to London from Swindon aged 12 to attend the Sylvia Young Theatre School, the place her friends included the longer term multi-award winner Winehouse.

After confirming that she and the “Tears Dry on Their Own” singer have been mates at the time, Piper, 41, shared some perception into Winehouse’s distinctive nature.

“She was always cheeky,” Piper recalled. “She was always like that, you know. She would do abstract stuff, and I really loved it.”

“Could she act?” Lennie requested, to which Piper replied: “Yeah, she could do everything. Super clever, super bright, [she was] unlike any other girl at that school.”

The actor, who will quickly star within the hotly anticipated Netflix drama Scoop, then shared that Winehouse’s quirks and variations from their fellow college students led to her not having “the easiest ride” at the school.

“She got bullied quite a lot at school because she was doing her own thing, and she liked to push buttons, and do weird stuff,” the I Hate Suzie star mentioned.

“And I had a lot of space for that, but not many of the girls did. It wasn’t the easiest ride.”

Winehouse acquired widespread important approval for her music, and have become the primary British girl to win 5 Grammys in 2008. She additionally acquired extreme media consideration surrounding her struggles with substance abuse and dependancy, and died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011, aged 27.

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Winehouse’s life will likely be detailed within the forthcoming biopic Back to Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Marisa Abela because the singer.

Last month, Piper made a uncommon remark about her relationship together with her ex-husband Laurence Fox, the previous actor and present right-wing agitator.

Asked about having to co-parent with Fox, who has gained notoriety within the UK for his politics and high-profile on-air sexism storm, Piper admitted the toll had change into “enormously difficult”.

“I close everything down and keep a very strict routine with the kids so that there’s consistency. I keep them close. That’s all I can do,” she advised British Vogue.

Piper additionally famous that Fox’s household, together with his sister Lydia Fox and her husband Richard Ayoade, “might have a more interesting take” on him.