Billie Piper has revealed the “real” reason she quit music despite huge success.
The actress first found fame at age 15 with her smash hit Because We Want To in 1998 and was the youngest female singer to enter the charts at number one.
However, the 41-year-old ended her pop career in 2003 and turned her attention to acting, as she felt she was a “charlatan” in the music industry.
During an appearance on Friday’s Heart Breakfast, she told host Jamie Theakston: “I went back into acting because I studied acting before I was signed as a singer and that was my greatest passion.”
“I wanted to return to that, I felt a bit out of place in the music industry?”
“‘It wasn’t, I felt a bit of a charlatan really, I was a massive fan of music and I could hold a tune, but I never felt like a genuine musician I guess.”
“I loved dancing, I loved performing, I loved live shows but I found the industry too taxing towards the end, it was just too much, it was such hard work, I’ve never worked as hard as I did as a child since.”
After returning to acting Billie was cast as Rose Tyler in Doctor Who in 2005 before going on to star in a number of other TV series and films.
Most recently she played BBC producer Sam McAlister in Netflix’s hit which tells the story of Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview.
Billie recently opened up on her toxic split from ex-husband Laurence Fox: “It is enormously difficult co-parenting.”
The couple who were married for six years ended their relationship in a “quickie divorce.”
The actress shares two sons with the controversial activist- Winston, 12, and Eugene, 8.
In 2022, Laurence publicly spoke out and claimed that Billie was using their children as “weapons” against him.
At the time, the 41-year-old remained silent but she has now spoken about their toxic relationship in an interview with British Vogue.
When asked how she navigates co-parenting with her ex, Billie answered: “With enormous difficulty.”
