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Billie Piper has admitted she believes fame is 'poisonous' and 'depressing' and that she has decided to act 'less and less' in the future.
The singer-turned-actress, 40, was thrusted into the spotlight at the tender age of 15 with her debut single, Because We Want To, but has now revealed she's been left disappointed by stardom.
In a new interview with The Guardian, she described life in the public eye as 'awful', 'gross', and a 'dark thing', adding that her 'happiest' times happened pre-celebrity.
'It's gross and such a dark thing!' Billie Piper has claimed fame is 'poisonous' and 'depressing' while revealing she'll act 'less and less' in the future (pictured in 2021)
The Doctor Who star said: 'Fame is awful. It's gross. It's such a dark thing. And it will change your everyday experience of life in a way that is depressing, frankly, in my experience of it. When I imagine some of my happiest, and my freest times, most of them are pre-fame.
'It's annoying because I love creating things. I love production. As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying making things from the ground up more and more and I think probably in the future, I'll act less and less. I love what I do.
'But I'm tiring of the nonsense of it all. To be honest, I have been since I was 19. It felt quite poisonous from a very early age. Now I'm so grateful that I had those experiences a long time ago, and now I can pretty much entirely focus on the work, and not the bulls**t.'
Tragic: The singer-turned-actress, 40, was thrusted into the spotlight at the tender age of 15, but has now revealed she's been left disappointed by stardom (pictured in 1998)
Last year, Billie revealed that therapy helped her cope with looking back at her early fame and how she relates to Britney Spears' struggles.
She told how for many years she couldn't watch herself in her childhood music videos or listen to her songs, but now
