‘I drink, I swear, I like sex’ Catherine Zeta-Jones’ attempt to get rid of good girl image | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

On one occasion, Zeta-Jones reportedly had to swerve her car into a lamppost while she was trying to escape the paparazzi. 

It wasn’t just the constant attention that unnerved the upcoming actress, as she told The New Yorker in 2021: “I didn’t have the finances to protect myself or to have any privacy. I never went on the Tube anymore or the bus. Walking out of my house on the streets of London, I’d get barraged.

“Be careful what you wish for. I craved a break like that. And, when it came, it was really terrifying.”

Zeta-Jones discovered she was entirely sick of constantly being in the public eye and in 1996 moved to Los Angeles where she was still an unknown actress. 

In an attempt to rewrite her own narrative in the press this time, Zeta-Jones gave a bombshell interview with the Daily Mirror in 1997 declaring: “I drink, I swear, I like sex. People have the wrong idea.”