GRETA SCACCHI - SCACCHI RELIVES HEARTACHE FOR ACTING ROLE

Actress GRETA SCACCHI has used her "painful" heartache over former lover VINCENT D'ONOFRIO to resurrect her acting career in a new show on London's West End. The White Mischief star was so devastated when she split from D'Onofrio in 1992 she couldn't act for four years - crushing her blossoming Hollywood career. But Scacchi admits she was forced to resurrect those life-changing emotions for her new role as Hester Collyer in Terence Rattigan's drama The Deep Blue Sea. She says, "With Rattigan, the convention is that you keep a stiff upper lip and nobody shows any emotion. "But he (director Edward Hall) got us to really plumb the depths of these emotions and use our own stories. It was quite a cathartic experience. "I felt I had reawakened stuff in my own situation of overwhelming sexual passion that was unrequited. It was very, very painful and quite scarring."