Emma Thompson Says She Was 'Utterly Blind' About Ex-Husband Kenneth Branagh's Affair

Branagh and Carter met on the set of "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."

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Emma was not ready to discover that her then-spouse, Kenneth Branagh, was having an unsanctioned romance with Helena Bonham Carter,

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he met while playing old flames in the 1994 film "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."

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“I was utterly, utterly blind to the fact that he had relationships with other women on set,” Thompson told

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“What I learned was how easy it is to be blinded by your own desire to deceive yourself,” Thompson

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The “Love Actually” actress added that she was only “half alive” when she and Branagh, 61, decided to divorce in 1995

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“Any sense of being a lovable or worthy person had gone completely,” she said.

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“I was half alive,” Thompson said of the time that followed their split.

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“I burst into tears because he sounded exactly like my father singing on ‘The Magic Roundabout,'” Thompson recalled

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"I don't think we wanted to be some power couple," Thompson said of her six-year marriage to Branagh.

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