Laurence Fox SLAMS ex-wife Billie Piper’s ‘outright lies’

Laurence Fox took to social media to slam former spouse Billie Piper‘s ‘outright lies’ after she claimed co-parenting their two sons was ‘enormously troublesome’ amid the controversial actor and activist’s quite a few scandals.

 Billie, 41, who shares Winston, 12, and Eugene, eight, with the ex-GB News host lastly broke her silence on the poisonous cut up in a brand new interview with British Vogue, six years after their divorce. 

Following it is publication, Laurence accused Billie of being untruthful in a prolonged social media publish and mentioned whereas ‘not being excellent’, he’d achieved his greatest to put his kids first. 

He beforehand spoke about their parenting association in 2022, claiming his ex was utilizing their kids as ‘weapons’ and that he’d been denied entry to seeing them. 

Laurence has now additionally accused Billie of taking him to courtroom ‘over a dozen occasions’ since their cut up, making them each spend cash which needs to be ‘going in the direction of their childrens’ futures’.

He wrote: ‘The actuality is that not all marriages work out and the world is not excellent. 

‘I do nevertheless take nice exception to the assertion that co-parenting with me is enormously troublesome.

‘I’ve by no means tried to disclaim our boys entry to their mum and I’d by no means want her something apart from a secure household.

‘My solely focus these previous years has been to be current of their lives and be a loving dad. I’m not excellent, however I’ve achieved my best possible to place the youngsters first.’

Laurence additionally claimed that ‘secretive’ household courtroom methods had been ‘completely unfit for goal’ as a consequence of being ‘vastly weighted in the direction of the mom’.

MailOnline has contacted Billie Piper’s representatives for remark. 

When requested throughout her British Vogue interview how she navigates co-parenting  Billie shared: ‘With monumental problem.’

She continued: ‘I shut every thing down and preserve a really strict routine with the youngsters so that there is consistency. I preserve them shut. That’s all I can do… 

‘What is paramount for me is the privateness and anonymity of my kids. They deserve to not be extensions of the dad and mom and to forge their very own identities.’

Billie added she tries to keep away from listening to something about her ex, who has hit headlines in latest weeks for a slew of controversies. 

He was lately dropped from GB News after launching right into a ‘sexist’ rant a few feminine journalist and misplaced a excessive profile libel case after calling two males ‘paedophiles’. 

Yet Billie does her greatest to keep away from being drawn into his scandals, explaining: ‘I attempt to preserve folks from telling me stuff however it’s actually, actually onerous. 

‘I do not learn it however everybody needs to speak about it. Sometimes I’ve to say to folks: “Please don’t bring this to me, now or ever.”‘

Yet she confessed she is not the most effective individual to ask about Laurence, saying: ‘Look, if folks need to try to perceive the workings of the man, they must both ask him or his household. 

‘Ask [Fox’s brother-in-law, actor and comedian] Richard Ayoade what he thinks, or his spouse [Fox’s actor sister] Lydia. They may need a extra attention-grabbing take.’

Laurence beforehand confessed in a Sunday Times interview that he had fallen out along with his brother-in-law, half-Nigerian comic Richard, after his controversial race rant on Question Time. 

Appearing on the BBC panel present in 2020 he accused Rachel Boyle, an instructional at Edge Hill University on Merseyside, of ‘being racist’ after she known as him ‘a white privileged male’ for denying the Duchess of Sussex was hounded from Britain for being mixed-race. 

After his controversial statements, Laurence revealed his half-Kuwaiti girlfriend of 5 months, Sara McKinnon dumped him and triggered stress with Richard. 

Laurence mentioned: ‘[Richard] was livid. He informed me I’ve by no means encountered racism. I responded. “Yeah, of course I have”. I’ve encountered racism from black folks in the direction of me, after I was working in Kenya [as a safari driver] for seven months.

‘It’s the way in which you are spoken to. Racism could be deferential.’

He revealed Richard did not attend Sunday lunch at their home for a number of weekends, because of their feud however they’ve since turn into associates once more. 

While Billie did not need to spend her complete interview discussing her ex-husband she admitted: ‘Of course I’ve emotions on that, I’m not lifeless inside.’ 

Billie added: ‘I’ve needed to make some decisions and a divorce speaks for itself… or no less than it ought to! You should snort as a result of it is loads. It’s a great way of form of soothing your self.’ 

Despite discussing the difficulties of Laurence, she revealed that there was a ‘optimistic’ of their divorce and custody battle. 

She reasoned: ‘It’s made me really feel stronger in some ways. I’ve learnt I’ve a whole lot of resilience I did not know I had. 

‘I’ve needed to study the onerous means that you may solely management your self and the way you react to issues. It’s actually f***ing onerous. I hate that.’ 

Billie first met Laurence in a theatre rehearsal room in 2006 they usually tied the knot the next yr when she was 25.  

It was her second marriage, following her controversial union with DJ Chris Evans, whom she wed when she was 18 and he was 35 – but Billie has no dangerous phrases about her first husband, labelling him ‘one of many good guys.’ 

Most lately she was relationship singer Johnny Lloyd however the couple quietly separated final yr after eight years collectively. They share five-year-old daughter, Tallulah. 

There appears to be no dangerous blood between the pair, with Billie labelling Johnny ‘an excellent man’. 

She confessed in her Vogue chat that her late 20s and early 30s had been a interval of unrest for her and she or he felt ‘unhinged and mentally not effectively’. 

Billie recalled: ‘There was one thing very, very sobering about that point and letting go of people who weren’t very wholesome for me. Unfortunately, a whole lot of that has been in relation to males I suppose.’ 

She tied-the-knot with Laurence in a low-key parish church ceremony on New Year’s Eve in 2007, after a number of drinks within the native pub.

They had been married in a 50-minute ceremony at a village church close to their £750,000 dwelling in Eastbourne, West Sussex, with the actress sporting a proper, low-cut marriage ceremony costume in ivory with a flash of pink.

It was Billie’s former husband Chris and his new spouse, Natasha Shishmanian, that made the visitor listing considerably uncommon.

The presenter was additionally the primary individual to go to the newly-married couple’s dwelling, with the trio chinking glasses in a cordial toast earlier than Chris drove to his personal nation pile, just some miles away.

Laurence and Billie went on to welcome two sons.

In 2010, Billie spoke about their marriage, admitting they’d aimed for ‘thespian couple’ superb of just one individual working at a time.

Yet she confessed: ‘But we have failed at that already – we’re so egocentric, we could not even make a yr.’

Billie added the pair had additionally invested in a spot in London in addition to their cottage in West Sussex, as she’d begun to really feel remoted, admitting: ‘It was getting a bit “Sylvia Plath” down there.’ 

In 2016, the pair confirmed they’d separated after eight years of marriage, and insisted that ‘no third events concerned’ of their cut up.

A publish on his official Facebook account on the time learn: ‘Laurence Fox and Billie Piper have separated. No third events are concerned. For the sake of our household we request and attraction for area and privateness at the moment.’

The pair had been granted a ‘quickie divorce’ in a courtroom ruling that took simply 50 seconds, citing unreasonable behaviour.

The actress, was not current when her request for a decree nisi from the actor was granted on the grounds that the wedding had ‘irretrievably damaged down’ on the grounds of his ‘unreasonable behaviour’.

At the time of their cut up, they acknowledged their intention to ‘co-parent their kids with the utmost mutual respect for one another’.

But between 2016 and 2017, Laurence and Billie then turned embroiled in a prolonged custody dispute over entry to their kids.

The proceedings concluded within the Family Division of the High Court in December 2017 and Laurence beforehand claimed that they drained his funds.

The actor mentioned that he’d been compelled to place his profession on maintain in order that he might assist their kids address the aftermath of the cut up.

Speaking in January 2018, he mentioned: ‘I used to be definitely in a really darkish place at one level – at my lowest ebb. I virtually felt like I could not go on. It all felt so hopeless.

‘With divorce, you instantly lose half the time you’d spend with the youngsters. That in itself is a psychological well being disaster. But, like every thing, these emotions cross and also you begin to really feel stronger with day-after-day.

‘Men now not really feel snug speaking about relationships, and for the lads who bottle it, it may be disastrous – they find yourself throwing themselves off buildings.’

After his courtroom proceedings, Laurence began campaigning to rework the household courtroom system, which he described as ‘unnecessarily adversarial’.

At the time, he mentioned: ‘Actually I really feel actually unhappy. The course of did not have to be so lengthy, drawn-out and adversarial.

‘And ours was fast, as a result of we’ve got money. I really feel the youngsters have been robbed of their younger lives. It’s been half of Eugene’s life.’

In 2022, Laurence introduced their custody dispute again into the general public eye when he accused Billie of denying him entry to their kids, alleging that he has not been capable of see or converse to his eldest son Winston on his 14th birthday.

He penned: ‘It is [my son’s] birthday tomorrow and his mom has denied him any entry to see or converse with me, I’m utilizing my platform to focus on what youngster alienation does to households. Kids want each dad and mom.

‘Don’t be the mum or dad who refuses to let their sons converse to their dad, particularly on their birthday. Don’t be that mum or dad. Put kids first. Don’t use them as weapons.

‘It is so dangerous for teenagers. Child alienation must be talked about brazenly, together with all different youngster abuse.’

But Twitter customers had been fast to hit again at his allegations and accused him of utilizing his kids as ‘weapons’ – which he accused Billie of – by sharing the ranting publish.

From Billie Piper’s booze-fuelled marriage with Chris Evans to bitter divorce battle with Laurence Fox… the star’s sophisticated relationships as she ‘splits from her boyfriend of eight years Johnny Lloyd’ 

It’s unfortunate in love once more for Billie Piper as she has reportedly cut up from her boyfriend Johnny Lloyd after eight years collectively.

The former Doctor Who star, 41, and the singer, 38, who share five-year-old daughter, Tallulah, determined to finish their romance after lockdown had a significant affect on their relationship, based on The Sun on Sunday.

It’s not the primary relationship to seemingly flip bitter for the actress; she’s been divorced twice and concerned in a bitter custody battle together with her ex Laurence Fox. 

She famously married her first husband Chris Evans again in 2001, after relationship for six months, aged simply 18, with the 16-year age hole between the pair sparking controversy. 

So, amid studies that the top of Billie’s relationship to Johnny was ‘very unhappy’ and they’re ‘higher off aside’, FEMAIL takes a take a look at the star’s sophisticated relationship historical past… 

CHRIS EVANS 

Fans of Billie Piper had been shocked when it emerged that she and Chris Evans had tied the knot in an off-the-cuff Las Vegas marriage ceremony in 2001 – with simply six visitors.

The couple has solely met a yr earlier when she appeared on his TV present TFI Friday in 2000 – the subsequent day, he despatched a £110,000 Ferrari stuffed with roses to her dwelling (she could not drive on the time). 

She was simply 18, when she wed Chris who was 16-years previous her senior, sparking controversy.

The duo married in a secret Las Vegas ceremony on the Little Church of the West for which she wore flips flops and a sarong. The groom was equally informal, donning an open-necked shirt.

An 18-month sabbatical adopted because the couple travelled the world, earlier than settling at Chris’ nation property in Hascombe, Surrey. 

The couple cut up three years later in 2004 and the divorce was finalised in 2007, they remained on good phrases with Billie likening the wedding ‘to being in your college years’.

She didn’t request a single penny of his estimated £30million fortune, and though citing irreconcilable variations on their divorce papers, they remained shut afterwards.

Billie beforehand recalled how she acquired ‘utterly hammered for 3 years’ together with her ex-husband when she was feeling burnt out from her teen pop profession. 

Speaking on David Tennant Does A Podcast With… in 2020, Billie mentioned she had an ‘superb time’ with Chris and described the connection as ‘very loving.’

And when Billie had a public ‘meltdown’ in 2006, it was no shock that it was her estranged husband to which she turned. 

Suffering from stress over her forthcoming stage debut within the intense emotional drama Treats, she was seen making a teary cell phone name near the rehearsal rooms the place last preparations had been being made for the play’s opening night time.

Minutes later, Chris appeared, accompanying her to a pavement café the place he tenderly held her hand as she sobbed uncontrollably.

MATT SMITH

After her marriage broke down, Bille Piper was appear trying cosy with Matt Smith, who performed Doctor Who – three years earlier than he scored the position.

Meanwhile, Billie performed the Time lord’s well-known assistant since its 2005 revival, whereas he was an unknown actor propelled to fame when chosen to star within the BBC collection. 

Pictured holding arms at a Surrey fete in 2006, the pair stroll collectively via the gang, ingesting Pimms and having fun with the sunshine.

At this level, the 2 actors had simply been reunited on the set of ITV2’s Piper car, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, wherein Smith had a minor position. They had beforehand labored collectively on BBC drama The Ruby within the Smoke.

Although Smith and Piper by no means introduced they had been formally a pair, a pal who was with them on the day they visited the fete says their chemistry was unmistakeable.

‘They had been very touchy-feely and appeared actually comfy with one another,’ they mentioned. ‘Everybody assumed they had been a pair by the way in which they had been performing.’

The pal added that the 2 actors didn’t go unnoticed by the gang. ‘Lots of people had been speaking about how good they appeared collectively,’ they mentioned.

‘They had been undoubtedly having a good time. Obviously everybody knew who Billie was – however Matt wasn’t in any respect well-known then. It’s superb to assume he has gone on to star in Doctor Who.’

LAURENCE FOX 

Chris Evans was not Billie’s solely husband – she additionally was married to Laurence Fox, who was well-known for coming from an performing dynasty, and now for his political commentary work.

Billie first met Laurence in a theatre rehearsal room in 2006, they went on to marry a yr later – she was granted a ‘quickie’ divorce from him in 2016.

She tied-the-knot with Laurence in a low-key parish church ceremony on New Year’s Eve in 2007, after a number of drinks within the native pub.

They had been married in a 50-minute ceremony at a village church close to their £750,000 dwelling in Eastbourne, West Sussex, with the actress sporting a proper, low-cut marriage ceremony costume in ivory with a flash of pink.

It was Billie’s former husband Chris and his new spouse, Natasha Shishmanian, that made the visitor listing considerably uncommon.

The presenter was additionally the primary individual to go to the newly-married couple’s dwelling, with the trio chinking glasses in a cordial toast earlier than Chris drove to his personal nation pile, just some miles away.

Laurence and Billie went on to welcome two sons, Winston, 12, and Eugene, eight.

However, the pair confirmed they’d separated after eight years of marriage in 2016, and insisted that ‘no third events concerned’ of their cut up.

A publish on his official Facebook account on the time learn: ‘Laurence Fox and Billie Piper have separated. No third events are concerned. For the sake of our household we request and attraction for area and privateness at the moment.’

The pair had been granted a ‘quickie divorce’ in a courtroom ruling that took simply 50 seconds, citing unreasonable behaviour.

The actress, was not current when her request for a decree nisi from the actor was granted on the grounds that the wedding had ‘irretrievably damaged down’ on the grounds of his ‘unreasonable behaviour’.

At the time of their cut up, they acknowledged their intention to ‘co-parent their kids with the utmost mutual respect for one another’.

But between 2016 and 2017, Laurence and Billie then turned embroiled in a prolonged custody dispute over entry to their kids.

The proceedings concluded within the Family Division of the High Court in December 2017 and Laurence beforehand claimed that they drained his funds.

Actor Laurence revealed that he’s been compelled to place his profession on maintain in order that he can assist their kids address the aftermath of the cut up.

But slightly than throwing himself head-first into his work, he’s needed to turn into a full-time father to his two kids.

Meanwhile Billie – who shares sons Winston, 12, and Eugene, eight, together with her ex-husband Laurence Fox – informed The Guardian: ‘I learn about dysfunctional relationships. I learn about what it prices to be a lady.’

JOHNNY LLOYD

Now Billie Piper has reportedly cut up from her boyfriend Johnny Lloyd after eight years collectively.

The former Doctor Who star, 41, and the singer, 38, who share five-year-old daughter, Tallulah, determined to finish their romance after lockdown had a significant affect on their relationship.

Sources informed The Sun on Sunday that the top of their relationship was ‘very unhappy’ and they’re ‘higher off aside.’

A supply informed the publication that Billie and Johnny truly cut up final yr.

They mentioned: ‘It’s clearly very unhappy that the couple have gone their separate methods.

‘But the connection ran its course they usually determined they’d be higher off aside. Like many {couples}, lockdown was fairly powerful for them, in order that they have had time to actually take into consideration what they need their future to appear to be.

‘They will all the time treasure the time they’d collectively and have many glad reminiscences.

‘Now they’re concentrating on co-parenting their daughter and their separate careers.’

MailOnline has contacted Billie’s representatives for a remark.

Former Doctor Who star Billie was beforehand married to DJ Chris Evans, who’s 17 years her senior, and actor-turned-political activist Laurence Fox, 45, with whom she has two sons.

Billie and Johnny welcomed their daughter Tallulah in January 2019 after it was confirmed in July 2018 that Billie was anticipating her first youngster with the rocker.

A supply informed the Mirror on the time: ‘Billie and Johnny are delighted. They cannot wait to welcome the brand new addition to their household.’

She revealed she would like to have extra kids again in February, 2018, admitting: ‘In my dream world I’d have masses.’