Love rat Law says sorry to ‘all of the people I’ve hurt’

WITH his incorrigible womanising, broken engagement and betrayal with his children’s nanny, Jude Law has always seemed one of the most shameless characters in showbusiness.

Now, however, the Oscar-nominated actor has claimed he is full of remorse over the trail of broken hearts he’s left in his wake.

‘I regret hurting people,’ he says. ‘It’s an awful thing. And trying to gain the forgiveness or the understanding of someone you’ve hurt, or heal a pain that you may have inflicted, that’s where regret hits hard.’Jude’s confession seems to have been inspired by his role, as a fictional pontiff in the forthcoming Sky Atlantic drama, The Young Pope.

‘Regret is really interesting,’ says Law, 43. ‘It’s something I think about in terms of lessons learned. In a way, to regret something is almost to regret the lesson learned from it.

‘And if you’ve learned your lesson then it was probably a good thing in some way. F***ing up or being an idiot and having to pay the consequences for that? It’s how you learn.’

The Talented Mr Ripley star, who is currently courting psychologist Phillipa Coan, fathered a child with Irish-born singer Cat Cavelli, 24, last year but they split up before the baby was born.

He conceived another child in 2009 with 26year- old American model Samantha Burke, whom he met on the set of Sherlock Holmes. Again, they parted before the birth.

Law claimed he would ‘be a fully supportive part of the child’s life’, but did not meet Burke’s baby until she was five months old.

He has three children with ex-wife Sadie Frost. While playing Cockney lothario Alfie, he embarked on a romance with one of his co-stars, Sienna Miller, 34, pictured above with Law at the film’s premiere in 2004, and they became engaged.

However, she called off the wedding after he made a public apology to her for sleeping with his children’s nanny. He now declares: ‘Confession is facing yourself and saying, “You did this and this is the consequence”. And absolution is going, to yourself, “I know I did and I learned my lesson.” ’ That’s all right then.