London ( CNN ) -- Britain 's phone hacking trial got a shot of Hollywood glamor Friday , as actress Sienna Miller was quizzed on the stand about her relationships with movie stars Daniel Craig and Jude Law . The trial has been focusing this week on the claim that she had an affair with Craig , which was exposed by a tabloid journalist hacking the James Bond actor 's voice mail . The journalist , confessed phone hacker Dan Evans , testified that Miller left Craig a voice mail telling him she loved him while she was out at a swanky London club with her then-boyfriend Jude Law . `` Hi , it 's me , I ca n't speak , I 'm at the Groucho ( club ) with Jude . I love you , '' the voice mail said , according to Evans , who is testifying for the prosecution . Miller testified that it was the kind of message she might have left for Craig , but that it has been misconstrued by the media and the public . `` For a long period of time , he was one of my closest friends , '' she said of Craig . `` That 's how I ended all my calls to my friends . '' She said she had never had a `` relationship , '' with Craig , adding : `` It was a brief encounter . '' Lawyer to actress : I love you . The private lives of the Hollywood stars are being exposed as part of a long-running trial into phone hacking by British tabloid journalists . A key defendant , former News of the World editor Andy Coulson , became a top spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron after leaving the paper over a hacking scandal . Coulson 's defense lawyer , Timothy Langdale , accidentally set up the funniest moment in the week 's testimony when cross-examining Miller about the `` I love you '' voice mail . He was reading it to Miller , who testified by video link from New Orleans , when the two began talking over each other because of a delay on the line . Langdale stopped and asked Miller to go ahead . `` No , you just told me you loved me and I interrupted you , '' Miller replied , drawing laughter from everyone in court . Langdale has spent most of the week trying to punch holes in Evans ' testimony , and drew out that Miller had not been in London the night she is supposed to have left the voice mail from the Groucho club . Under his cross-examination , Miller said she recognized that a journalist might find the voice mail `` titillating . '' `` I think if journalists got their hands on that piece of information , they would find it titillating and it might be the basis for a story , '' she said . `` People would have thought that was a pretty exciting message to hear -- people who did n't know my nature and know that 's how I communicated with people . '' From paper to politics . Coulson resigned as editor of News of the World in 2007 after a journalist working for him pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack phones . He said he did not know the journalist had been doing it , but he accepted responsibility as editor of the paper and quit , and then went to work for Cameron . Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010 . Coulson resigned as his spokesman in 2011 when the phone hacking scandal exploded for the second time . Coulson and the other six defendants deny the charges against them , which include conspiracy to intercept messages and related crimes . Evans , a last-minute prosecution witness , insisted Tuesday that he played the hacked Sienna Miller voice mail for Coulson in 2005 . Coulson , Evans said , shouted , `` Brilliant . '' The editor went on to instruct Evans to cover up the fact that Evans had obtained the voice mail illegally , Evans testified . He told Evans to make a copy of the message , put the copy in a Jiffy bag and send it to the front gate of the newspaper offices to make it appear as if it had been dropped off as an anonymous tip . News of the World ran a front-page story about the alleged affair on October 9 , 2005 . 'Even the office cat ' knew . On Thursday , Coulson 's lawyer Langdale said that Coulson was not even in London on the date Evans claimed to have played him the voice mail , according to British media reports . Evans has steadfastly insisted that Coulson knew that journalists at the paper were illegally intercepting voice mail , and that Evans was hired partly for his ability to do so . The former News of the World reporter has said that everyone at the newspaper , `` even the office cat , '' knew he was hacking phones , and that Coulson certainly did . On Tuesday , he rattled off a list of 10 names of colleagues who he said knew it , including Coulson . Langdale has pushed Evans to admit that he negotiated hard to get immunity from prosecution after he was arrested for hacking phones . Evans conceded that prosecutors had said he would not only have to admit his own guilt , but incriminate others in order to get immunity . In the end , prosecutors did not offer him the full immunity he sought , he said . Evans has also admitted to alcohol and drug abuse , but said he is clean now . The trial has touched the highest levels of British politics , media and society . In addition to the link between Coulson and the British Prime Minister , the case has put pressure on global media baron Rupert Murdoch , who owned the News of the World until he shut it down over the hacking revelations . Rebekah Brooks , a friend of Cameron and a protege of Murdoch , was editor of News of the World before Coulson , and went on to become head of Murdoch 's British newspaper publishing company before resigning over the hacking scandal . She is a defendant alongside Coulson , and also denies all the charges against her .
NEW : Miller says she had never had a `` relationship , '' with Craig ; `` It was a brief encounter '' NEW : Her hacked voice mail saying she loved him causes a light moment in court . Former News of the World journalist Dan Evans says his editor knew of the hacking . Former editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks deny the charges against them .