Hugh Grant is just like character in Bridget Jones

EXCLUSIVE: Love rat, actually:
star Hugh Grant exposed 

HEARTLESS Hugh Grant lives his life as if he's the calculating seducer in one of his most famous movies, his secret mistress Kasia Komorowicz reveals today.

"With me he was just like the guy he plays in Bridget Jones's Diary—he really knows how to seduce, satisfy and ultimately CON a woman," says Kasia.

"But his whole life is an act. It's like he's the same as he is on screen and you can't separate the two. It's very weird. He just plays out his characters from his films."

In Bridget Jones's Diary, Grant is cast as heartbreaker boss Daniel Cleaver, who gets Bridget into bed, then callously dumps her for someone else—only to want her back again as soon as he discovers she's seeing another man.

And Kasia details today how a bizarre incident in his four-year affair with her could have come straight from that film script.

"During one of the off periods in our relationship I met an English equity trader—a millionaire," she says.

"We had a whirlwind romance, he swept me off my feet, and within 10 days of meeting him we were engaged.

"It was at a time when I knew Hugh was flirting around and I reckoned we were going nowhere. I just wanted a normal loving relationship."

Kiss

But Hugh's reaction after he found out was just like his character's in the movie when he discovers Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is seeing Colin Firth's character Mark Darcy.

The real-life drama kicked off when Kasia decided to phone Hugh to tell him her news.

"He completely freaked out," she says. "He told me ‘You can't be engaged.' Then he told me he had to see me straight away.

"I told him I was in a bar with friends and before I knew it he turned up out of the blue and said: ‘You're mad!'

"I replied, ‘No I'm not—I'm engaged. Hugh said, ‘No you're not!'

"Then in front of all my speechless friends in the bar he said, ‘I'm going to prove to you that you are not in love. Kiss me!'

It was the kind of drama you would expect in one of Grant's romantic comedies. But Kasia was determined to do what he couldn't— keep her feet on the ground.

"I said, ‘No!' He was speechless. Then he offered to take me home. I told him: ‘You would never marry me, would you? He replied, ‘How do you know?'

"Had he then got down on his knees and proposed to me I would have accepted. But he didn't.

"When we got to my place, he said, ‘Can I come upstairs?' And I said, ‘No. It's not wise.' He then tried to kiss me on the lips but I turned my face and he caught me on the cheek."

The scene was over—and in a few weeks, so was Kasia's engagement.

"I called my fiancé and told him I'd met Hugh for a drink and he had dropped me home," says Kasia.

"He went crazy. He knew I had been in a relationship with Hugh and he was extremely jealous.

"My feelings towards him quickly changed. I finished the relationship. I was angry at both of them.

"Hugh had just come after me because he realised he was losing me to another man."

But even when their affair was at its best, Grant abused it—playing the caddish screen villain.

"He was so unreliable and you could never plan anything with him, just like Daniel in the film," says Kasia.

"After we became lovers I really wanted to build a relationship," she said. "But whenever I called him he would say, ‘I can't talk right now. I'll call you later.'

"Yet he wouldn't call me back until days later and only then when he was needy. He would leave a gushing message on my answerphone saying, ‘Where are you? I miss you. You don't love me any more. I want to come over.'

Trust

"He promised me he would take me on holiday to Poland and to the south of France. But he never did.

"He always made the excuse that he couldn't go on holiday with me because he wanted to protect me from the media spotlight."

Grant also liked to use Kasia as a shoulder to cry on. The millionaire would sit in her little one-bedroom flat moaning about his life.

"Despite all the trappings of wealth, Hugh was clearly unsatisfied," she says. "He told me, ‘I'm not happy. I don't like acting any more.'

"He said he wanted to give up acting for good. That it wasn't creative enough and he found it frustrating.

"All he wanted to do was to write a book but he said he couldn't find the inspiration. One night he told me, ‘I don't even have one person in my life I can talk to.'

"I told him he could trust me and I wanted to understand why he was so unhappy.

"But he was a closed book. He always put up barriers. He never discussed his relationship with Liz Hurley.

"There was an unspoken understanding it should never be raised."

Looking back, Kasia reckons even the really serious conversations she had with him ended up like the dialogue from one of his roles as a foppish Englishman.

"I once asked him, ‘When am I going to be your proper girlfriend?' He said ‘I am seeing somebody at the moment, but give me till May. I will take you to Cannes.

"I asked him, ‘Do you love this girl? He said: ‘I'm not sure. I don't know how I feel. It's complicated.'

"I asked if she was married. He said, ‘I don't want to talk about it'.

"That was him all over. You never knew what the future held. I never did get inside Hugh Grant's head."