Miller, an actress and former girlfriend of actor Jude Law,
told NBC’s “Today” show in an interview that aired Thursday that stories about
her appeared in the newspaper that only her mother, sister, boyfriend and best
friend knew about.
“At the time I was incredibly paranoid,” she said.
Miller reached a 100,000-pound ($161,000) settlement with
the tabloid News of the World, which had hacked into her cell phone messages.
She accused some of the people close to her of selling
stories to the press, she said. She’d plant the false stories to see if they
appeared in the newspaper, and thus expose a person betraying her, but the
false stories never appeared.
Miller said she also became suspicious when it became clear
there were a large number of voice mail messages that friends said they’d left
and she never received.
“Everything is compromised enormously,” she said. “It had a
huge impact on relationships, friendships and my career.”
Once it became clear to her what was going on, Miller said
she was still reluctant to take on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire for fear that
it could damage her career.
“It was just too horrendous to not expose, and I was really
happy that I did,” she said.
