Billie Piper admits ‘enormous difficulty’ of co-parenting with Laurence Fox
Billie Piper has admitted co-parenting her two children with Laurence Fox comes with “enormous difficulty” in rare comments about their divorce.
The British actress, 41, has been largely coy about her divorce from actor-turned-political activist Fox in 2016, after a nine-year relationship.
Fox, a self-professed “anti-woke” campaigner, has found himself in the middle of several high-profile controversies in recent years – one of his most recent ones leading to his suspension by GB News over “misogynistic” comments he made on air about a female journalist.
Piper has admitted co-parenting her two children aged 11 and 15 with Fox amid such controversies comes “with enormous difficulty” in an interview with British Vogue.
“I’ve had to make some choices and a divorce speaks for itself. Or at least it should,” she said.
The former Doctor Who star said Fox’s family, including his sister Lydia Fox and her husband the comedian Richard Ayoade, “might have a more interesting take” on him than she did.
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“What is paramount for me is the privacy and anonymity of my children,” she said. “They deserve not to be extensions of the parents and to forge their own identities.”
British Vogue said the interview with Piper, published online on 15 March, took place days before a High Court judge ruled Fox had libelled two people when he referred to them as “paedophiles” on social media.
Asked what she does when such dramas arise with Fox, Piper said: “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.”
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She implied she asks her friends and family to avoid telling her about Fox, adding: “I try to keep people from telling me stuff but it’s really, really hard.
“I don’t read it but everyone wants to talk about it. Sometimes I have to say to people: ‘Please don’t bring this to me, now or ever’.”
Encouraging herself to find a “positive” to conclude on, she told the interviewer: “It’s made me feel stronger in many ways. I’ve learnt I have a lot of resilience I didn’t know I had.
“I’ve had to learn the hard way that you can only control yourself and how you react to things. It’s really f***ing hard. I hate that.”
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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