Scarlett Johnasson Says Private, Leaked Photos Were for Husband

Earlier this year, a set of very personal and very revealing photos of Scarlett Johansson leaked online after someone hacked into her email account. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the actress addresses the leak for the first time.

At the time she was thus exposed to the public, Scarlett only confirmed that the person in the photos was her and then alerted the FBI.

In a later interview, she talked about a celebrity's right to privacy and how invading it is just as devastating as it would be for a regular Joe or Jane.

Scarlett recently sat down with Vanity Fair and, when the topic of the leaked pics came out, she stopped beating around the bush about it: she took her pictures for her husband and she never thought someone else would see them.

She is referring, of course, to her now ex-husband Ryan Reynolds.

“I know my best angles. They were sent to my husband,” Scarlett says with her trademark confidence.

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” she continues, adding that it's not like she was doing an adult movie. “Although there’s nothing wrong with that either,” she adds quickly.

She doesn't say more and she doesn't need to. Neither does she need to apologize because some guy broke into her account and decided to make her personal photos available for the entire world.

This kind of behavior stems from the belief that celebrities are not people too, Scarlett was saying in the aforementioned recent interview, as we also noted at the time.

“Just because you’re in the spotlight or just because you’re an actor or make films doesn’t mean that you’re not entitled to your own personal privacy,” she said.

“No matter what the context, when that is sieged in some way it feels unjust, it feels wrong. I’ve gotten that response from many people that I’ve met now. They say ‘how do you deal with the invasion of privacy?’ I don’t know,” Scarlett added.

“To me it’s an adjustment. There are certainly instances I think where you give a lot of yourself, finally you just kind of put your foot down and say ‘wait, I’m taking it back,” she said.

By the “taking it back” part she probably meant going to the authorities to report the crime.