In the noughties, she seemed fearless, getting paralytic at awards ceremonies and picking public beef with Madonna. However, it looked as if she might be settling into a quieter life when she married Sam Cooper and had their two daughters, but within four years they’d split up. You might not immediately have guessed, when she wrote in her memoir about a fling with Liam Gallagher, that since childhood she’d been dreaming of “two point four children, living in the country”, as she told this newspaper. But now we know what was really going on underneath.