Keira Knightley feared her career would be 'shattered' if she was photographed drunk

Keira Knightley has admitted that during her aboriginal days successful the spotlight, she utilized to beryllium acrophobic that if she got photographed drunk it could extremity her career.

The Pirates of the Carribean actress, 39, claims she had seen first-hand the harm that could beryllium done by immoderate of her peers who were snapped falling retired of clubs and she was determined that she wasn’t going to beryllium 1 of them.

Opening up successful a caller interrogation with The Sunday Times newspaper, she explained: “I 100 per cent recognised and saw people’s careers being shattered due to the fact that they were photographed coming retired of clubs.

“The wealth connected my caput astatine that point, of you’d got a representation of maine drunk, it was truthful huge. I wasn’t going to springiness the [paparazzi] the restitution of taking that away, truthful I was unbelievably straight.”

In a unusual twist of fate, the Love Actually histrion ended up gathering her hubby James Righton connected a nighttime retired successful London successful 2011 connected a uncommon juncture erstwhile she decided to propulsion caution to the wind.

Any further temptations were short-lived arsenic the mates wed successful 2013 and are present arrogant parents to daughters Edie, eight, and Delilah, four.

She added: “It was a truly bully time. It couldn’t person continued overmuch beyond then, partially due to the fact that I got large but also, healthwise, I don’t deliberation it would person been good. But I deliberation periods of hedonism are precise important.”

In the aforesaid interview, Knightley - who was precocious seen successful the Jilly Cooper TV adaptation of Rivals connected streamer Disney+ alongside Emily Atack, David Tennant and Danny Dyer - besides recalled the “public shaming” she felt amid claims she had an eating disorder.

Knightley told the work that she dealt with changeless speculation astir her slender frame, which she said was unfounded, and insisted that she “was eating”.

Explaining that backmost successful the aboriginal 200s, intelligence wellness wasn’t arsenic openly discussed arsenic it is now, she said she recovered the comments hurtful and that they caused her “trauma”.