
On Wednesday, Kristen Stewart caused a blogosphere tornado by comparing fame to being raped. In excerpts from July’s Elle Magazine, Kristen compared paparazzi photos of her self to being raped. As soon as the words hit the paper, everyone threw a fit from rape victims to rape crisis centers. And rightfully so! I doubt that being photographed by paparazzi is quite the same as being raped.
With that said, I’m sure she didn’t mean it literally, and we should probably cut the girl some slack. Have you ever seen her speak live? She’s a bumbling mess! She gets so nervous, about half of what she says actually makes sense!
Here’s what she said to Elle Magazine:
“What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction,” she tells the new issue of Britain’s Elle. “The photos are so… I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped.
“What I say is, that, why would I want anything that’s private to become entertainment for other people? … People say that if I just tell them everything I’ll be left alone, but God, you think if I tell people they’ll leave me alone? They pick up every little scrap, and that’s much worse.”
But since everyone jumped on the girl, she’s now opening up about her bad choice in words.
“I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously,” Stewart, currently in Korea to promote the new installment of the Twilight series Eclipse, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “And I’m really sorry about my choice of words.”
Stewart, 20, is not known as one to mince words. “I’ve made stupid remarks before, and I’ve always reasoned: ‘Whatever. They can think what they want,’ ” she says. “‘Violated’ definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought,” she notes.
“People thinking that I’m insensitive about this subject rips my guts out. I made a big mistake.”
I’ve got your back, Kristen. I know you didn’t mean it. Now do me a favor, and please don’t let Eclipse and Breaking Dawn suck. Thanks, Jocelyn.
Posted Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 8:08am
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