Billie Piper has revealed her biggest regret from her days as a teen-popstar is how she treated her parents.

She said recently: “I made them redundant as parents because I thought I didn’t need them. When I was 15, I would say, ‘Mum, I’ve got a mortgage and a boyfriend. I can handle it.’

“Of course I did need them, but I pushed them further and further away. That’s the thing I feel most guilty about, shutting them out.”

“I would call them when I was in despair and say, ‘Can you come and get me?’ And they would always be there. But then they wouldn’t hear from me for weeks.”

She added she has now made amends: “I’ve said sorry to them for all the hurt I caused them, it was very important to me to do that.”