Billie Piper felt her life was over by the time she turned 18.
The singer-turned-actress - who enjoyed pop success as a teenager with ‘Because We Want To’ - says being a ‘vain’ washed-up pop star proved almost too much to live with.
She told Stella magazine: ‘I used to cry myself to sleep every night - crying about the mess I’d made of my life. I also realised that I’d become what I most despised. I was vain and controlling and I had this terrible eating disorder. It all made me feel like s**t.
‘I couldn’t take care of myself.’ Billie says she constantly battled with self-confidence and never felt good enough to achieve chart success.
She revealed: ‘I was a jumped-up young girl, full of neuroses and a bit mad.
And all the time I had these voices of self-doubt niggling away in my head telling me that I couldn’t hack it, that I didn’t have the voice of Mariah Carey and that I had no business pretending to be a musician.’ Billie admits she has only recently built up her self-esteem.
She said: ‘For a long time I felt like I was a pawn in other people’s games, everything was plotted out for me and basically I just did what I was told.
‘It’s only recently that I’ve stopped feeling like a complete charlatan and sorted myself out and found my self-esteem again.’
© bangshowbiz.biz
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