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Rhys Ifans has remained remarkably classy about his split with Sienna Miller last year. She left him abruptly and took up with the very married Balthazar Getty. While Getty’s wife Rosetta has had all of her public relations resources working overtime to bash the illicit couple, Rhys took the high road and never really spoke about his version of the split.

Now that he’s out promoting his new film The Boat That Rocked (which has Bill Nighy and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it, meow!), Rhys has already given a couple of interviews in which he alluded to the split but never came out and said anything about Sienna.

However, The Daily Mail caught up with him at the London premiere Monday night and got him to say “'[The paparazzi] don’t bother me anymore now though, it’s all about who you’re shagging and I don’t do that anymore… I learnt my lesson there, didn’t I? I won’t make that mistake again.”

Rhys Ifans has been off the radar lately – and that’s just the way he wants it.

The actor and hellraiser has revealed he’s had enough of famous girlfriends after ‘learning his lesson’ when he split up with Sienna Miller last summer.

Rhys, 40, was speaking at the Leicester Square premiere of his new movie The Boat That Rocked, set aboard a pirate radio ship in the swinging Sixties.

The gruff Welshman said he was sick of the attention from photographers during his relationship with Sienna, and added: ‘I had a harpoon on board the boat ready for when the paps tried to spy on us.

‘I would have loved to drown a few of them.”

‘They don’t bother me anymore now though, it’s all about who you’re shagging and I don’t do that anymore… I learnt my lesson there, didn’t I? I won’t make that mistake again.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I really think Rhys meant the “I learnt my lesson” comment in a general way, like he learned his lesson not to date a woman who is catnip to tabloids. It didn’t seem to me like he was trying to bash Sienna, he was just making a general comment about how he doesn’t like a lot of attention focused on his personal life.

In interviews, Rhys has always seemed like a really sweet, thoughtful guy, and I bet he was a good boyfriend. He’s really won me over with his classy behavior. Team Ifans.

Here’s Sienna and Rhys out in London last May .

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