14 DAY TRIAL // British actor Robert Pattinson, who has come to find an almost unprecedented level of popularity and media exposure with “Twilight,” is yet to adjust to the idea that he is this popular. Robert not only does not know how to behave around fans, as per his own words, but girls who would do anything just to get his attention, a picture or a photo actually scare him as he admits in a recent interview quoted by Celebrity Gossip.
Granted, the fans Pattinson speaks of are not just the regular screaming teen girls who would, at worst, tear their clothes off each other to get a better view of the handsome star, so it’s easily understandable why he felt a bit scared. As to his own admission, the girls in question actually started scratching their neck until they started to bleed, just to get Robert to notice them. As fans must know (and not only), Pattinson plays a vampire with a beautiful heart in “Twilight,” the first film in the franchise.
“One time there were these four girls – in Chicago I think – and they had all scratched their necks until they bled, and then when they came up to me they had these bleeding scabs. It was gross.” Pattinson reportedly says in one of his most recent interviews. Aside from the fact that what the girls did was ultimately wrong, it also put him in a tight spot since he, as a role model that he is, felt complied to please them in some way, to react to their irrational gesture.
“I feel guilty because when you have hundreds of people looking to you, you have to live up to expectations. You see all these people that surround you and you think that one way or another you have to please them.” Robert says of how hard it is for him to be dealing with fame. It’s precisely because of gestures like the one mentioned above that Robert usually prefers to keep to himself and only go out when he really has to, as he explained on countless occasions. Being famous is something that he neither wanted badly, nor sought with determination so it might as well go away tomorrow and he probably wouldn’t be sorry.
Then again, it has been pointed out, Pattinson is no stranger to dealing with out of control fans. Not long ago, the star was telling the media how he came up with a very “original” and safe way of getting rid of a female stalker he had, by taking her out to dinner, and complaining so much and making for such horrendous company that he literally almost bored her to death and she never came back.