EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Rupert Everett reveals he feels guilty about being ‘manipulative’ towards former colleagues

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By RICHARD EDEN

Published: 01:48 GMT, 19 March 2025 | Updated: 01:51 GMT, 19 March 2025

Rupert Everett has revealed he is feeling guilty about being ‘manipulative’ towards former colleagues. 

The British actor rose to fame in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s – earning him a BAFTA nomination.

But now the star has opened up about regrets regarding his conduct in former years. 

‘At work sometimes I disliked somebody and was deliberately nasty,’ admits the 65-year-old star of My Best Friend’s Wedding. 

‘I am and was an insecure person, so sometimes at work I cheated people, and people got on my nerves a lot and there was just no need for it.

 ‘I was quite manipulative in those kind of situations and I had a sharp tongue that I didn’t know the strength of.’

Rupert Everett has revealed he is feeling guilty about being ‘manipulative’ towards former colleagues (Seen in 2022)

‘At work sometimes I disliked somebody and was deliberately nasty,’ admits the 65-year-old star of My Best Friend’s Wedding (Seen with Julia Roberts in the film)

Last summer I disclosed that Everett had got married to the man with whom he’d secretly shared his life for years, a Brazilian accountant called Henrique.

‘They married recently,’ one of their friends told me at the time. ‘Both are wearing rings and are clearly very happy. Henrique is absolutely charming. 

‘He’s rather quiet and happy to let Rupert take centre stage.’

Everett couldn’t be reached for comment, though he has, in the past, spoken with characteristic verve about marriage — and about why, in his words, it’s ‘not my idea of heaven’.

Everything about friends’ weddings, he explained in 2020, he found ‘repellent’, and going to stag nights in the early 1980s was ‘one of the most appalling things’ he’d ever experienced.

Warming to his theme, he summarised wedding dresses as ‘hideous’, wedding cakes as ‘ghastly’ and lamented that ‘everyone is splitting up’ within two years of their wedding day.

‘I think making it a legal contract is very, very damaging to a relationship,’ reflected Everett, who, in his wild youth became entangled with John Hervey, later the 7th Marquess of Bristol, who died of Aids aged 44, having blown £35million on drugs, rent boys and other amusements.

The British actor rose to fame in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s (Seen in 2024)

‘A relationship has to breathe and live and change, and turn into a different thing every day,’ added Everett. 

But he did concede his perspective had shifted.

Declaring his intention of being with Henrique ‘forever’ — they live with Everett’s mother and their labrador, Pluto, in Wiltshire — he said he envisaged a restrained, unfussy wedding.

‘It’s not going to be George Clooney on a motor-ski going down the Grand Canal in Venice,’ he explained. ‘It’s going to be very quiet.’ So it’s proved.

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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Rupert Everett reveals he feels guilty about being ‘manipulative’ towards former colleagues

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