TWILIGHT hunk ROBERT PATTINSON has opened up about his struggle with fame and obsessed fans, revealing the constant “paranoia” he feels as he tries to escape the spotlight is wrecking his life.
The 23-year-old Brit was thrust into the limelight when he was cast as Edward Cullen in the hit vampire movie franchise and he suddenly found himself targeted by hoards of screaming teenage girls.
Pattinson now can’t go anywhere without being tailed by groups of photographers and over-excited devotees – and he was recently hit by a taxi in New York as he attempted to escape.
The star admits he is struggling to cope with his strange new life.
He tells Premiere magazine, “I haven’t found one place in the world yet where I could disappear. Even the most remote places I can imagine, someone will ask me for a picture with them or an autograph. Honestly, I didn’t think that I would be recognised so easily.
“The most embarrassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them, ‘Sorry I can’t go to that place’ because you’re fully aware photographers will be waiting for you there. I feel like such a weasel when things like that happen – like the world has to revolve around me.
“I was in a restaurant during a break, and when I came out two hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit. It was total chaos. But I’m sure that if I’d said to one of those girls, ‘Come on, let’s go have breakfast,’ she would have been totally embarrassed and would never scream my name again.”
Pattinson also fears fame is making him paranoid.
He adds, “I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be super vigilant because, at any moment, someone could be filming or recording what I’m saying.”
Team DainikDisha