Keira Knightley was once on her way to a red-carpet event when her dress split, leaving her 'full-on naked'

• Keira Knightley says a dress she was ready to wear on the red carpet once split from bottom to top.
• The "Pirates of the Caribbean" alum told People the split left her "full-on naked."

Keira Knightley said she once suffered a wardrobe malfunction that left her "full-on naked" in a new interview with People.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star told the publication the "amazing" outfit trouble occurred years back when she was getting ready to attend the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Knightley, 36, won her first accolade — the Variety Award — at the event in 2005, when she was pictured on the red carpet wearing a silhouette-hugging white bandage dress.

Knightley was wearing a Hervé Léger gown, "one of those bandage-y dresses," she told People in this week's issue. "I went to step out of the door and it split from the bottom to the top — my entire body was out."

"It was just full-on naked body," she added.

"Fortunately, two of these dresses had been delivered. It was at a point where I was being followed around by many paparazzi. Luckily, I was in my flat, I was not out the front door, so nobody got a picture of the fact that this dress had split," the mother of two said.

But the actress said it was a bit of a close call that her wardrobe malfunction happened in private. "Thank God it [didn't] happen on the red carpet," she told the publication. "It could have happened at any point that evening and I was incredibly fortunate that it happened when it did."

Knightley has gone on to attend BIFA multiple times since and received several nominations including for Best Actress in 2008 and 2014 for her work on "The Duchess" and "The Imitation Game" respectively, according to the official website.

Representatives for Keira Knightley did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.