De Paul bitterly regrets her affair with Connery, which began in 1989 when they met at a party. His second wife Micheline was sitting on the next sofa to Lynsey, but that did not stop him chatting her up and asking for her phone number. "I didn't want to have an affair with him and I tried to keep our relationship platonic but he pursued me relentlessly. He wasn't my type at all because I'm not usually attracted to the macho type. "At the time I didn't detect his violent side. All I saw was this charming man who quoted Robbie Burns, wrote his own poetry and had even written a ballet. I'm a sucker for all that. "In the end I thought: 'Why not?' I didn't know his wife so I didn't feel I was betraying her by having an affair." It lasted several months, during which time he would phone her from the set of the film he was making, The Russia House, and tell her he could only kiss his co-star Michelle Pfeiffer by thinking of her. It ended abruptly. They met for what she didn't realise was the last time, made love and he told her he would ring her the following weekend. She never heard from him again. "I was a stupid girl to become involved with him. I don't think I was in love with him - I was just flattered by the full-on attention."