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Meryl Streep Blames 'Debauchery' For Ruining Her Voice

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Meryl Streep might be a multiple Oscar-winner, but she does still hold some remorse for her potential career as a singer, which it emerges was cut short somewhat early.

By what, you ask? By her own ‘debauchery’, she has admitted.

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The star is currently doing the publicity rounds for her new movie 'Florence Foster Jenkins’, in which she plays the real-life New York socialite who forged an operatic career despite being completely tone deaf.

Streep, while not tone deaf, describes herself as a 'B, B+ singer’, who is 'very aware of her limitations’, according to an interview in the Radio Times.

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“Much as I would have liked to be a good singer after I began studying opera as a child, I gave it up early and sort of ruined my voice with smoking, drinking and debauchery,” she said.

The movie finds Streep starring alongside Hugh Grant who plays St Clair Bayfield, both manager and partner to Foster Jenkins.

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In the true story, Bayfield managed her singing, shielding her from the truth of the matter that she had a truly awful voice.

Directed by Stephen Frears, it also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Helberg and Nina Arianda.

It’s out across the UK on Friday. You can watch the trailer below.

Image credits: Getty/Pathe