Zellweger: 'I didn't sleep for four years'

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Renee Zellweger has claimed that she didn't sleep for four years because she was too busy watching global news.

The actress described herself as a "opinionated political plebeian" and said after 2001 she couldn't got to bed without watching reports on world events from European news channels.

She told the Metro: "I vote. I'm a highly opinionated political plebeian and I'm news-obsessed, especially from the international perspective.

"I swear I didn't sleep for four years starting in 2001.

"I didn't sleep from travelling around the world watching the news and seeing so many inconsistencies in the reports between the ones at home and the ones in Europe."