Welsh singer Charlotte Church and her parents settled their phone-hacking damages action for £600,000 (€707,000) at the High Court in London today.
Last week, lawyers for the 25-year-old and her parents, James and Maria, confirmed that terms had been agreed with News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN).
Church was present at the London court this morning for the reading of a statement resolving her claim that 33 articles in the now defunct Sunday newspaper were the product of hacking into her family’s voicemails when she was a teenager.
After the ruling, the singer said she was “sickened and disgusted” after discovering her phone was hacked.
The settlement, one of the highest to be paid out in the phone-hacking scandal, includes £300,000 in legal costs.
In a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the singer said money "could never mend" the damage that was done to her and her family but she planned to put the payout she was awarded towards protecting herself and her
children from further invasions of their privacy.
She said: "Today is an important day for me and my family. I brought this legal claim with my parents, as many others have done, because we wanted to find out the truth about what this newspaper group had done in the pursuit of stories about our family.
"What I have discovered as the litigation has gone on has sickened and disgusted me. Nothing was deemed off limits by those who pursued me and my family, just to make money for a multinational news corporation."
Church and her parents sued in December after the Metropolitan Police showed them evidence the News of the World's ex-private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed for phone hacking, had intercepted their phone messages as late as 2006, to write stories about them.
Church, who sang at Rupert Murdoch's wedding in 1999, when she was 13, settled after News International's lawyers told a judge they would seek to question her mother about her mental state during the trial to potentially reduce money damages.
As part of the agreement, News Corporation admitted it coerced Church's mother into giving an interview about her attempted suicide.
News Corporation, which shut the News of the World last July in an attempt to contain public anger, still faces possible claims by more than 800 likely victims identified by police.
Cherie Blair, the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair, sued the New York-based company last week.