As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

They tried to, yeah, put my situation in the light of being a victim in these circumstances and I told them several times, I didn't feel that.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.