Hurley 'bewildered' and 'alone'
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Your support makes all the difference.Elizabeth Hurley last night broke her silence on the future of her relationship with the actor Hugh Grant, following his arrest for "lewd conduct" with a Hollywood prostitute, Divine.
But the Estee Lauder cover girl, who is said to be trying to arrange a meeting with her boyfriend away from the media spotlight, refused to say whether she would be standing by him.
"I am still bewildered and saddened by recent events and have not been in a fit state to make any decisions about the future," she said in a statement. "For years I have turned to Hugh for help during difficult times and so now, even though my family and friends have been very kind, I am very much alone."
Members of the beauty press who saw her at an Estee Lauder 'private party' at the Halkin Hotel to launch a new fragrance, said yesterday that she had appeared confident and calm.
"She seemed a very strong woman in a good temper," said an Italian journalist. But there appeared to be cynicism in the beauty press about the story. "It came at an incredibly opportune moment for them both," said one journalist.
Miss Hurley's reaction when the couple finally meet will be a decisive factor in how the public responds to Grant's fall from grace.
They have only spoken by telephone since Grant,34, was charged on Tuesday by Los Angeles police. He was still in the United States yesterday afternoon although no longer in Hollywood, according to his friend, journalist William Cash.
The star of Four Weddings And A Funeral was spotted leaving Los Angeles by plane and was said to have disembarked in New Jersey."He will want to meet Elizabeth but a lot of it is to do with the logistics of how to, without people knowing,"Mr Cash said.
According to Mr Cash, people in Hollywood were shrugging off the incident, in which Grant is alleged to have paid a Sunset Boulevard prostitute for oral sex.
"Elizabeth wasn't there. Maybe he was just under a lot of pressure. But the whole business is not regarded as career threatening." Grant has hired Howard Weitzman, the lawyer who helped Michael Jackson beat child sex abuse allegations.
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