Billie Piper has said she felt like a “charlatan” when she was a pop star in her teens.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that acting was always her passion and she felt she had limited musical abilities.
Piper, 38, who now works as an actress, shot to fame in her teenage years with hits including Because We Want To, and lived in London away from her parents for several years before turning 18.
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She said she felt like a “salesperson for other people’s music”.
“I always felt like a charlatan because I loved singing but I didn’t have the strongest voice, I didn’t write songs, I didn’t play or write music,” she added.
Piper, who is now dating former-Tribes frontman Johnny Lloyd, gave insight into her time with Evans and proclaimed to have no regrets.
She tied the knot to the DJ after six months of dating in a secret ceremony, in Las Vegas, back in 2001.
Their relationship drew attention due to their 17-year age gap – Piper was 18 at the time and Evans was 35.
The couple finalised their divorce in 2007 after three years apart and have remained close friends since.
Piper described her time with Evans as “reckless” but felt it was needed during an interview on David Tennant Does A Podcast With….