Twilight star Robert Pattinson says he worries about being infected with HIV when adoring fans approach him with open wounds and ask him to suck their blood.

Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the series, has revealed he genuinely fears for his life when fans mob him in the street.

The 23-year-old actor laid out his concerns to promote a new biography ahead of the next Twilight film, New Moon, which premieres this week.

“People ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair,” Pattinson told the News Of The World.

“I just don’t want someone to have a needle and give me HIV and I don’t want to get shot or stabbed.”

Pattinson recalled one time where a group of girls approached him bleeding from scratches they had just opened up on their necks.

“They were like, ‘We did this for you’ … I didn’t know what to say — ‘Thank you, guys?’”

Pattinson said he feels vulnerable at big film events such as premieres, where he could be the target of an overly obsessive fan or even a terror attack.

He admits struggling to come to terms with fame since the release of the first movie, which grossed more than $350m worldwide.

He has difficulty coping with so many people trying to “ambush” him in public and at home.

He said he has come to accept the attention, but would be prepared to give away acting away for his first passion — music — if the fans ever became too much.

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