Jane Birkin

Music Promotion for the song je t'aime

Her steamy Sixties hit Je t'aime made Jane Birkin a sex icon for a whole generation, but now the British-born actress has admitted that she never liked the song.

In an unusually candid interview the 61-year-old has revealed that she felt used by her then husband, Serge Gainsbourg, the film director and artist who wrote the song for her

Recalling an incident when she was bound naked to a radiator for a now-infamous photo shoot, she said: "It was Serge who tied me up for this photograph. I didn't like it. I didn't even like the song Je t'aime."