Helena Bonham Cartner has addressed the difficulties in working with her former partner Tim Burton, whom she was with for 13 years until 2014.
Despite the pair collaborating on numerous films, Helena recalled that she ‘really didn’t get on’ with the iconic director while they were working on the 2008 film Sweeney Todd.
Speaking to the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast, she said that the pair ‘came a cropper’ while making the Johnny Depp-starring movie ‘because we were both so out of our depths’.
She said: ‘I’d never sung before, he had never done a musical and it’s that classic thing that you take your stress out on the person who you know best and we really didn’t get on during that one.
‘Amazingly I got pregnant but let’s not get into that.’
She added: ‘We had a lot of laughs but there were times when working together was not harmonious.’
The Crown star continued: ‘We weren’t very argumentative as a couple except on Sweeney.’
She added that ‘on Planet Of The Apes when we weren’t together, he was fantastically respectful and he is a delight to work with’.
The actress and US film director – who share two children – announced the end of their relationship in 2014 after more than a decade together.
They came together to work on six legendary films including Alice in Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dark Shadows.
Helena recalled in an interview with Red in 2015: ‘I could write a thesis on what’s happened.
‘[I]t is all-absorbing when a relationship breaks down, but I think we’re coming through it, and I think we’ll have something very precious still. Our relationship was always somewhat special, and I think it’ll always remain special.’
The actress further explained: ‘We did find each other. And really, the mark of a successful relationship shouldn’t be whether you’re there forever after. Sometimes you’re not meant to be forever together.
‘Sometimes you have to come to terms with the fact that that was it. But that was a gift, a massive gift. We gave each other children and a lot more else.’
Grounded With Louis Theroux is available on BBC Sounds every Monday and is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 every Wednesday at 8pm.
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