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"Emma Thompson has said she has forgiven Helena Bonham Carter for her alleged affair with Thompson&amp;#039;s ex-husband Kenneth Branagh. The Love, Actuallyactress was with Branagh for six years before they split in 1995, at the time blaming the distance between them because of their work.  Speaking to The Sunday Times, the 54-year-old star said: &amp;quot;All blood under the bridge. You can&amp;#039;t hold on to anything like that. I just think... pfft. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s pointless. I haven&amp;#039;t got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago.&amp;quot; Branagh, now 52, reportedly became involved with Bonham Carter while filming 1994&amp;#039;s Mary Shelley&amp;#039;s Frankenstein. Once they went public with their romance, it lasted until 1999.   Thompson suggested that she and Carter are similar in manner, saying: &amp;quot;Oh we are [alike]. Being slightly mad and a bit fashion-challenged. Perhaps that&amp;#039;s why Ken loved us both. She&amp;#039;s a wonderful woman, Helena.&amp;quot; The actress also spoke about the moment in 2003&amp;#039;s Love, Actually when her character finds out her husband is having an affair, admitting she has had plenty of practice off-screen with portraying the emotions for that. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom, then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer,&amp;quot; she said. View all of today&amp;#039;s best celebrity pictures - Photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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