Sadie Frost reveals she was ‘really knocked’ by public divorce from Jude Law
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Sadie Frost has admitted she was “really knocked” by her public divorce from Jude Law, but revealed she has “excelled so much more” since being single.
The Bram Stoker’s Dracula actor, 59, and Talented Mr Ripley star, 52, were married from 1997 until 2003 and share three children, Rafferty, 28, Iris, 24, and Rudy, 22.
Frost, who married and welcomed a son with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp prior to her relationship with Law, revealed she suffered “very low self-esteem” in the aftermath of her high profile divorce.
Speaking on Good Housekeeping’s podcast My Life in a Biscuit Tin, Frost said: “I’m feeling really happy and content at the moment. I feel confident. It took me a long time not to care about what people thought.
“I had very low self-esteem. It really knocked me going through a very horrible, public divorce [from Law],” she explained.
“I’ve excelled so much more since I haven’t been with somebody because I think there’s a constant thing of having to keep someone else happy,” the fashion designer added.
“At the end of the day, I want to get up at 5am and do my yoga – and I’m not compromising unless it’s for my children and close friends,” Frost continued.
“Even though it was difficult when the kids all left home, it made me embrace being on my own. I had to face that fear of being on my own,” she explained.
The former model, who suffered from the childhood lung disease Bronchiectasis, revealed that yoga has helped her manage her anxiety and panic attacks.
“I used to have a lot of anxiety because of not being able to breathe,” Frost said. “My mum and her friends were always saying, ‘Sadie, you’ve got to do yoga, it will really help you prolong your life.’
“She started making me do it at 15, and I was in and out because you don’t want to go to breathing classes when you’re 15 – you want to go out partying,” the model said.
“But through my 20s, 30s, and 40s – especially when I had my kids and did pregnancy yoga – I realised that to stop anxiety or panic attacks, I had to engage with it.
“With a strict yoga practice, I’ve been able to conquer all the problems that came up from having this lung condition, which I’ll have forever.”
It comes after Law’s subsequent partner Sienna Miller, who he dated from 2003 until 2006, opened up about the “madness and chaos” of her relationship with the actor last year.
“It was in many ways the most exciting moment. I just started working and I was in a big film and in love with this idol, and very, very happy, but the flip side of it was so dark, so quickly,” said Miller, who was just 23 at the start of her relationship with Law.
However, she admitted that she feels “very lucky to kind of still be here” after “drinking too much” and “going out too much” to cope with the media attention.
“I think that it can incur just madness and chaos. It is chaos,” she said. “You’re dealing with aggression and violence, and you’re a piece of prey and you’re being hunted every day, so you’re paranoid.”
