Prince Harry v Daily Mail latest: Sadie Frost tells court she's had 'many sleepless nights' over 'distressing' privacy case

An emotional Sadie Frost took to the witness box at the High Court to kick off the second week of the case involving seven high-profile claimants against the publisher of the Daily Mail.

If you're just catching up with our coverage from today's proceedings, here's a summary of everything we heard.

Just 30 minutes into her questioning, Frost became emotional as she was shown an article written in 2002 about her two-year-old daughter finding an ecstasy tablet on the floor at a venue in Soho during a party.

Frost cried as she recounted the facts and spoke about her daughter.

"This has been on my poor girl Iris's life forever... it's just so humiliating... it just made me so ill," she said.

'There was obviously a price on my head'

Frost was asked by Antony White, representing Associated Newspapers Limited, about the 11 articles published about her, which she claims were sourced through unlawful information gathering.

Asked about the effect that they had on her, she said she "didn't have time to be reading articles and bringing up kids... it didn't help my mental health".

Frost told the court she believed there was a device planted in her car at one point and that her voicemail was hacked. She said there was "obviously a price on my head" for articles about her.

She also told the court that her ex-husband Jude Law believed she was leaking information to the media at the time of the articles' publication.

"To have the man you love think you're leaking stories is awful," she said, saying their relationship was "ruined for many years".

'All of this is horrible'

Much of the afternoon was taken up by White's line of questioning which formed part of ANL's argument that claimants have brought their case too long after the October 2016 cut-off date for legal action. 

The claimants say they were not aware they had a potential claim until after this date.

White repeatedly suggested Frost knew enough to bring a case before she launched legal action in October 2022, outside the six-year time limit.

But Frost insisted "it's not true".

"You're making me feel like I'm part of something that I'm not," she said.

"All of this is horrible but I'm telling you the truth."

Frost said she's being made to feel like she's part of a "plot" or a player in a game.

She was also asked about whether she tried to get her friend Kate Moss to join the group claim - something she said is "100% untrue".

We'll be back with more live coverage tomorrow, when former MP Sir Simon Hughes is due to give evidence.

Sadie Frost has finished giving evidence for the day as her lawyer David Sherborne wraps up his questioning.

We'll be back with a recap of everything we've heard shortly. 

Until then, you can scroll through our updates below.

David Sherborne asks Sadie Frost how the process of bringing the case against the Mail's publisher has been for her.

"The whole process has been very demanding, very distressing, I've had to relive a lot of things I didn't want to relive," she tells the court.

She says her children "have been so supportive over this whole thing".

"It's been horrible, the Daily Mail should be accountable," she adds. 

"They're the only people being dishonest saying they didn't do anything.

"Why should they get away with this when they didn't take any accountability?"

Frost says she wants to "move on from it, I'd never want anyone to go through what I've gone through".

"I've had many sleepless nights and it's been horrible," she says.

David Sherborne, representing the seven high-profile claimants in this case, now starts asking his questions to Sadie Frost.

He asks if Frost ever encouraged her friends to pass on any information to journalists.

"No," she replies.

He then asks Frost about details which were published in a Mail on Sunday article titled 'Sadie v Jude'.

She confirms that a series of details published in the piece would likely have been discussed by the pair in a conversation over the phone.

Antony White, representing ANL, suggests that Sadie Frost is "pretending" she found out about the 2006 voicemails featured in the Byline article.

"That's not true," she tells the court - see our 13.12 post for more details on those voicemails.

"How do you know what I was feeling?" she says in response to White.

"I was completely not expecting it, completely in shock... you're completely off the mark, all of this fabrication is untrue.

"I swear on my life it's not true," she says.

White finishes his questioning.

The court is shown an email sent to Sadie Frost from Dr Evan Harris on New Year's Eve in 2018, asking if she'd provide a reaction to a Byline article claiming the Mail on Sunday was involved in hacking to obtain her private details.

"It makes me very upset and very angry that I had to deal with this on a day I should be with my children," Frost tells the court.

Frost says it was the first time that she'd seen this information in this context, adding "it's very hard to compute some of these things".

"It's not like this is the only thing in my life," she adds.

"I didn't want to deal with that information on my own, it felt very lonely and scary to have that information."

Frost says she was wanting to "try my best to have a lovely time with my family" when she received the email.

"There's nothing dishonest or sinister here," she says.

"There's no plot or plan, it's New Year's Eve for goodness sake."

Sadie Frost tells the court that "all of this is very distressing and overwhelming".

"You're making me feel like I'm part of something that I'm not," she says.

"All of this is horrible but I'm telling you the truth."

Frost says she's being made to feel like she's part of a "plot" or a player in a game.

"You can keep asking me over and over again, I'm telling you it's not true," she adds, referring to Antony White's repeated suggestions she knew enough to bring a case before she launched legal action in October 2022, outside a six-year time limit.

"I'm an innocent person that was hacked and victimised by the Mail," Frost says.

As we've been reporting, ANL's lawyer Antony White is focusing the bulk of this afternoon's questioning on whether Sadie Frost was shown evidence of a potential claim against the publisher before the October 2016 cut off for legal action.

While this line of questioning continues, here's a look at some of the articles which form Frost's case.

Her claim is that 11 articles and two "episodes" between 2000 and at least 2010 involved unlawful information gathering commissioned by the Mail's publisher.

The court is now shown an email from Dr Evan Harris to Sadie Frost, inviting her to a Hacked Off event in September 2017.

Here's what part of that email said...

"I will discuss with Mark [Thomson] meeting about the Daily Mail (Mail on Sunday in fact) hacking issue as we have gathered more evidence since we last spoke, and will need you to speak to Kate [Moss] who was also targeted."

Antony White, representing ANL, suggests Frost wanted to discuss the contents of the April 2016 meeting (see more in 14.20 post) with Harris and her lawyer.

"100% that is not true," she says.

She adds it wouldn't have been her job to get Moss to join the claim, but she would have been interested in any information Harris may have had.

Frost says she would never "in a million years" use her friendship with Kate Moss to bring the model onto a case, after this is suggested by White.

"You've manufactured a whole story that isn't true," says Frost.

Sadie Frost is asked whether she tried to encourage her friend, model Kate Moss, to join the group claim against Associated Newspapers Limited.

"That is 100% untrue," she replies.

"I would never have... we don't have that relationship."

Frost tells the court she wasn't "talking to these other people" about a group claim at the time in 2016.