Overview
- Kensit told Davina McCall on Thursday that her marriage to Liam Gallagher became so all-consuming that she "lost part" of who she was and stepped back from acting.
- She recalled Noel Gallagher taking her aside to ask why she had stopped working and urging her not to neglect her career.
- Kensit said she turned down film roles because she was "too afraid to leave him on his own," a decision she now sees as a major career sacrifice.
- She described how relentless tabloid attention and the rock-and-roll lifestyle contributed to alcohol problems and said she has since given up drinking for her mental health.
- Kensit is preparing to reprise Sadie King on Emmerdale after a roughly 20-year absence, and her reflections revive discussion about the personal costs of Britpop-era fame symbolised by the couple's 1997 Vanity Fair image.