Actor Hugh Grant said recently that he believed his phone was hacked by Britain’s tabloid Mail on Sunday. Grant told an inquiry into media ethics that a 2007 story about his romantic life could only have been obtained through eavesdropping on his voice mails.

“I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in the Mail on Sunday except those voice messages from my mobile phone,” he said.

The tabloid published a story alleging that Grant’s romance with Jemima Khan was on the rocks because of his conversations with a “plummy voiced” woman the paper identified as a film studio executive. Grant said there was no such woman, but he did receive voice messages from the assistant of a producer friend.

Grant sued the newspaper for libel, and won.