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The truth behind Emma Thompson’s heartbreaking Love Actually scene inspired by real-life rejection

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CHRISTMAS just wouldn't be Christmas without the festive film Love Actually. But one scene that always has fans in tears is where Emma Thompson's character discovers her husband is cheating.

In the film, she sobs uncontrollably after finding a necklace her husband had bought for his mistress. The 62-year-old said she managed to make the scene so convincing because she had felt the pain herself when her ex husband Kenneth Brannagh was unfaithful to her.

Emma and Ken, who were together for eight years, split after he ran off with Helena Bonham Carter. In an unearthed interview from 2018, Emma said at a fundraiser: “That scene where my character is standing by the bed crying is so well known because it’s something everyone’s been through.

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