Mischa Barton has admitted that she consciously tried to lose her British accent after moving to the US. The former O.C. star, who was born in London, told the Daily Mail that she was “embarrassed” to admit that she had attempted to ditch her accent after relocating to New York. “I went to classes and everything. I ended up putting on this terrible ‘Nu Yawk’ accent and hid behind that for a while,” she explained. “Now I don’t try to hide it so much, but my accent slips all over the place. It’s a mess – I don’t sound like I’m from anywhere anymore.” The 23-year-old, who opened this year’s Harrods sale, added: “I haven’t lived [in Britain] since I was tiny, but my entire family is British and I’ve been raised as a Brit. “My sister lives and works in London as a barrister, but nobody can get their head round the fact I’m anything but a Hollywood girl. In the US nobody thinks of me as American, and here, nobody believes I’m British.”