Sienna Miller tells of "frenzied" paparazzi chase

By Andrew Hough

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Actress Sienna Miller told a British court on Monday of her terror as paparazzi photographers chased her car across London after she left a trendy nightclub.

The 26-year-old said she had tried desperately to evade the photographers to stop them learning her new address.

Giving evidence for 30 minutes, Miller said photographers darted in and out of traffic and nearly blinded her driver by taking flash pictures.

The paparazzi cut off cars and buses and dangerously overtook on blind corners in a bid to grab another picture, she told West London Magistrates Court.

"I felt scared and threatened. Their actions were aggressive, to say the least," Miller told the court.

"I believed it was particularly frenzied on this occasion because they did not know where I lived and they were particularly keen to find out so they could follow me more and get the pictures they wanted."

Dressed in a dark grey mini-skirt suit with her long blonde hair tied up, Miller gave her testimony just hours after she missed out on a prize at the British film awards, the BAFTAs.

She said she had slouched in the backseat of her Mercedes as the photographers drove like "lunatics" trying to take her picture, and rang her boyfriend pleading for him to help her escape them.