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I have never really had a slim body type. 'Where once I saw food as a great joy, I now began to see it as an enemy. 'I began to hate my body and this warped body image would turn into a compulsion,' Hussey writes in The Girl on the Balcony, published by Kensington Books tomorrow. The studio demanded she see a specialist for being 'plump', something that had never bothered her - but it did the studio. The intoxicating spotlight that overnight celebrity ushered in – something the young girl had dreamed of since age four - also brought on a weight gain that required diet pills morning and night making her hyper and stressed out. While it was the defining acting role of her career that introduced her to fame and glamour, it also exposed her to terrible grief and self-doubt with two tumultuous marriages, a crippling case of agoraphobia, neurotic panic attacks, food compulsions, pot smoking, drinking and pills. Winning the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet was a blessing and a curse for 15-year-old Argentinian actress Olivia Hussey.

She called her boyfriend at the time, Dino Martin, whose first words were 'I'm going to have him killed'.

Jones came into her room one night and began to beat her for over an hour before raping her.

The Argentine-born actress tells of her tumultuous relationship with actor Christopher Jones and how she had to mix his medication into his oatmeal.

The actress was later diagnosed with agoraphobia - an anxiety disorder in which one feels panicked and trapped in certain environments.

During the opening of the film at the London Palladium, she was so nervous she burst into a fit of giggles and wet herself in front of the Queen and royal family.

She tells how she hated the staple of her wardrobe - a 'dreaded bodice' which was so tight that it had to be unlaced after takes to allow her to breathe.

Olivia Hussey reveals her struggles while filming Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 classic film Romeo and Juliet, in her new book The Girl on the Balcony.Romeo & Juliet actress Olivia Hussey reveals mortifying moment in front of the Queen and how Dean Martin's son Dino threatened to have a lover 'killed' after he beat her to a pulp, raped her and got her pregnant in new memoir