Bettany's bullying hell
02/04/2006 - 15:38:14Screen star Paul Bettany suffered terrible bullying at school because his "posh" accent stuck out at tough inner-city London school.
The A Beautiful Mind actor was encouraged to be well-spoken by his middle-class family, but this only served to alienate him in the classroom.
He says: "I was bullied horribly and I hated everything about school.
"Part of the reason was that initially, when I was young, we lived on quite a rough estate in Harlesden and I suppose I spoke posh, but it was awful because I didn't have any of the good bits - we didn't have much money and yet I didn't fit in."
