Sienna Miller’s dubious reputation

Sienna Miller has had a lot of bad press. She’s been pilloried for saying that drugs were “f---loads of fun!” She’s had to apologize to the mayor of Pittsburgh for calling the city “Sh-tsburgh.” But most of all, she’s widely seen as a loose woman. “I’m supposed to be this complete slapper,” she tells Alex Bilmes in British GQ. After high-profile affairs with Jude Law and Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, she was photographed last year topless in Italy with actor Balthazar Getty, a married father of four. She concedes that didn’t look very good. “I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl’s girl,” she says. But she adds, “If you put a camera in anyone’s life and document it daily from 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren’t always pretty. I definitely have been foolish. I’ve made apologies to people I needed to, but I can’t apologize to people I don’t know, for things they don’t understand.” Besides, she says, her reputation isn’t quite fair. “Actually, I was in a relationship from 19 to 21 with [fashion designer] Dave [Neville], 21 to 24 with Jude, then 25 to 26 with Rhys, and then Balthazar. And then a few dalliances, three months here and there, but I’ve never been like a shagger.” In fact, she’s been single for the past year. “Now I’m completely on my own. I think I’ve grown up a lot.”

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