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SM1 SM1 12 SUNDAY MIRROR 25.09.2016 mirror.co.uk 25.09.2016 SUNDAY MIRROR 13 KNOW LAURENCE FOX ON DEVASTATING BREAK-UP FROM BILLie PIPER your rights SBY JAME WALKER HAUNTINGLY HONEST EXCLUSIVE BY SHARON FEINSTEIN Laurence nurses a pint HAPPIER DAYS before talking about split Billie and Laurence NURSING a beer in a London bar, on a big night out Laurence Fox opens up about rehearsals for a new film and the darkest six months of his life. The actor – best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Hathaway in hit ITV series Lewis – is hoping this new British movie venture will help to heal the pain he has suffered this year. It’s customer The actor admits to having suffered I haven’t slept hugely since his actress wife, Billie Piper, DIS-service we called time on their eight-year-marriage. need to stand Charming and witty, Laurence exists on adrenaline, cigarettes and brutal up against now exercise to get him through. Ever been asked to pay He barely sleeps, suffers anxiety extra to jump a queue for attacks, and has been on a six-month a flight or to skip the line therapy course. at a theme park? Today the star has made the brave Or watched new step of speaking out in an attempt to customers get cheaper raise awareness of mental ill health. subscriptions, leaving for six months, loyalty unrewarded? The Sunday Mirror has long battled, through our Time to Change campaign, What about being to end the stigma. given a huge discount to Laurence is now a week into filming tempt you into signing up for a deal, only for the in deepest Devon, spending the longest renewal price to rocket? time so far away from his two sons These are all examples Winston, seven, and four-year-old of what I call customer Eugene. But the work with fellow actors dis-service – and it has to Anna Calder-Marshall, Sinead Matthews, stop. We should never and Greg Hicks, is already helping him have to pay extra for enormously. things that should be a This Family, about a dysfunctional I’ve had panic right, not just an option. family gathered round their dying So how do we stop it? mother’s bed, means Laurence will Well, together we can. take home the same minimum wage as We have to challenge it every member of cast and crew, because each and every time. he believes this is a way to revive good Here are my tips how. British film. THREATEN TO LEAVE If you’ve been a long- EMOTIONAL term customer but new I wasn’t super tolerant of sign-ups are getting He said: “In this new piece my Chris Evans. I was more naive discounts, complain – character has been the mender of his hard. Say you’re going to family’s problems all his life, having attacks. This than I should have been leave unless you are known his mother was having lovers, given the same deal. his childhood was destroyed by watching LAURENCE FOX ON BREAK-UP WITH WIFE BILLIE No brand wants a large what his mother did. churn in customers. They “I have to do a lot of screaming, will generally have a shouting, emoting and it will be good Retention Team who will for me to get it all out, after everything do all they can to keep I’ve been through this year. It’s like my your custom and loyalty. own family, highly emotional, lots of DON’T GIVE TACIT shouting, getting over it, lots of love. But APPROVAL absolutely no sulking ever. If you want Each time you accept to talk about class, that for me is a big customer dis-service one, people with no class sulk.” has hit me without speaking out, you give silent approval. Remarkably honest, and unashamedly Call it out every time. emotional, one of Britain’s most popular Use re solver.co.uk to actors described his shock, sadness and raise the issue and the trauma of divorce. escalate it to the boss. Chain-smoking, 38-year-old Laurence The more who speak said: “The physical symptoms of trauma out, the more likely it is and suffering are profound panic attacks things will change. for an extended period of time, and I’ve SHOP AROUND AND never had a panic attack in my life before haggle last year. Often you’re sent a high “It’s like being plugged into an electric renewal price and you very hard just keep paying. socket where you go mental. I’ve learnt to put on my running shoes and sprint never be able to thank him for how good to talk about feelings. There’s has knocked me very hard, it would trigger article 50 after six months, will a typical British establishment bullsh*t bullsh*t. I’m making less money in this film and I said, ‘Should we a good But you’re wasting as fast as I can until I can’t move any money. Use a site like wonderful he’s been to me. He sent me only so much room in the cupboard to anyone who really cares about marriage you just calm the f*** down a bit.” comment. Look at everyone else in the cast than if I stayed at home and did nothing. I do it again?’, and he combi- money savingexpert.com more, then there’s something else a personal trainer, Darren, three times store them up.” and its beliefs. I’m working with Anna And Laurence admits Billie’s who is also doing it. I fell in love with the wouldn’t have to drive here, use petrol, buy just muttered. So I said, STILL CLOSE Chris nation to check the best deals, distracting me and the endorphins kick a week, as a divorce present, and the Brought up by parents who have Calder-Marshall, she’s been married for continuing friendship with her ex Chris script straight away and that is so rare, that lunch, but the rich-poor divide in acting ‘What if you just turn up and Evans with Billie when because then use Resolver to in and you start to feel better. Thankfully other two days I train myself. remained married for 43 years, actor a very long time, and the love in her eyes Evans was hard for him. I wrote to the director as soon as I’d fees is killing art, so this is of real value. do a couple of days on it and I they were together we’re great complain. You may even they’re getting less all the time. “I kept going to my marriage guidance James Fox and Mary Elizabeth Piper, when she looks at her husband is huge, He measures his words when talking finished reading it, saying “I have a friend who visit you on your golf course and ask friends. He’s been a find a better quote with “I haven’t slept for six months, even counsellor even when we stopped, Laurence is a believer in keeping and that’s what I value. about the volatile ginger-haired please hire me! worked on a film with a for advice?’. He said, ‘Maybe’. real support to me through my the same firm you can with sleeping pills. I go to bed the same and she said, ‘You know all the promises for richer or poorer, so divorce “But other people have a phase in their presenter, but admits: “I don’t think I “My family dynasty is TIME TO casting budget of 35 million “I’m sure something will happen but divorce, and gave me very good advice. use to push them down. time, same bed as the kids and just lie money you’ve got saved for a has left him completely derailed. life where they’re married to this person, was super tolerant of having him around. fascinating to people, I get it, dollars as one of the four Kev’s got stuff on his plate right now, and “I did Lewis for over a quarter of my life SEEK OUT EMERGING awake, sleeping two or three hours. My rainy day? Well its f***ing He says, chokingly: “You make a that person, and that’s OK, I’m not but when you’re in it, its not CHANGE leads, and he was paid he’s worked really hard hasn’t he, so he and consistently earned good money and coMPETITORS mind’s whirring round. pouring, so use it’. promise and should stand by that. knocking it. I’m just boringly traditional. DYNASTY fascinating, just a normal £70,000, so the other three deserves a break. Customer dis-service is wasn’t a lavish spender apart from motor- no business model. “I’m seeing an amazing therapist, I “So I live that way at the If you just can’t work it out, then go “Let’s get married and stay married “I was just more naive than I should family. To me class is the way stars ate up the remaining 34 “I love him and don’t miss him because bikes. We lived in the country and our love her. You’ve got to seek help, from moment, spending what- about it with love and thought, forever. That’s what I grew up watching, have been. Chris Evans’ job is to observe you behave, that was always million dollars.” I see him loads. Do I miss Lewis? I miss the The rules are being FIGHTING FOR mortgage was less than £1,000 a month.