Elizabeth Hurley has said she felt "crushed" by invasion of her privacy by the press, the trial against the publisher of the Daily Mail has been told.
In her witness statement, Hurley alleges the Mail tapped her landlines and placed "surreptitious mics on my home windows" in an effort to get stories.
The actress became tearful as she gave evidence in her case against the Mail and Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) at London's Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday.
She is one of seven high-profile claimants accusing ANL of "grave breaches of privacy" over a 20-year period. The publisher has denied wrongdoing.
Hurley's claim against the publisher relates to 15 articles through which she says ANL "wilfully exploited my stolen information using its arsenal of illegal means". Five of those are about her son Damian and his father.
