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It’s been a week full of K-Stew controversy, but Kristen has finally given us (me) what we wanted: an apology and an acknowledgement that she was talking out of her ass. It all started when excerpts began to be released from Kristen’s Elle UK cover profile. Kristen was describing the paparazzi experience, and she said – among other comments - “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… All you see is an actor or a celebrity lit up but a flash. It’s so…The photos are so…I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time I can’t handle it. I never expected that this would be my life.” I told Kristen to STFU, as did many of you, and many other bloggers and readers out there. Rape crisis directors even got involved, saying that Kristen used “a poor choice of words”. So, long story short, the sh-t hit the fan, and now Kristen has backed down with a statement to People Magazine and an apology:
No sooner did excerpts from July’s British Elle make their way to the Internet on Wednesday than the blogosphere exploded in outrage.
In an offending quote, Twilight saga star Kristen Stewart compared paparazzi photos of herself to images of a woman being raped. Almost immediately, everyone from fans to spokespeople for rape victims’ advocacy organizations were publicly criticizing the actress.
“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.
But in this instance, the Los Angeles-born actress feels compelled to address the situation. ” ‘Violated’ definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought,” she notes.
In fact, the issue of violence against women is one that has been close to Stewart since playing a victim of rape in the 2004 film Speak. She has done public service announcements for the advocacy group RAINN and for SOC.
The irony of the situation in which Stewart now finds herself is not lost on the actress.
“People thinking that I’m insensitive about this subject rips my guts out. I made a big mistake.”
[From People]
Okay, I’m personally calling off my fatwa against her – not that I was even totally up in arms, I was more disappointed that a young woman who I had thought was intelligent and reasonable made such a dumb Megan Fox-esque move. I wanted her to acknowledge that she shouldn’t have used those words, and I wanted her to apologize, and she did both. She’s back in my good graces (not that it matters to her).
Header: Kristen’s Elle UK cover. Also, Kristen Stewart on March 17, 2010. Credit: WENN.
Written by Kaiser
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I’m glad to hear it.
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I agree Kaiser. I could take her either way…but kudos to her for owning up and taking responsibility for her comments. I hear she gets super nervous for interviews so she chose the wrong word and regrets it.
We’ve all had those foot-in-mouth moments!
Ok, I can go back to be totally annoyed by her lack of talent now…
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PRteam wrote this but she needed to add her hyperbola “rips my guts”. Oh yeah, no one cares as she does./sarcasm
This is nothing but damage control and the fact that it took them a week to do it proves they don’t care about what she said only that it got to the wide media and overshadows the promo.
By the time MTV MA are held everyone will talk about relationship rumours anyway just as their studio wants it. People have short memory but she will screw up again.
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This is good to hear. I wasn’t aware that she had been doing work for organizations relating to violence against women – now I like her more!
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I believe her, and I am glad she made this statement. Her comment was very stupid.
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what strikes me about her apology is that she said she’s sorry for “her choice of words” and acknowledges it was wrong. “I made a mistake”…taking responsibility, and all that.
so many apologies from people nowadays are more along the lines of “sorry that YOU WERE OFFENDED”, not “sorry I said something offensive”.
good for her for doing it right.
EDIT: Gwen, I didn’t know that either until I read this. strange…a celeb doing charity work and she (or her PR team) didn’t make an announcement? SHOCKING…
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She is young, and well.. kinda dumb (as we all were at that age) and a big enough person to own her mistake.
I have a feeling this girl will survive Hollywood and be just fine.
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I’m with Kaiser and Eileen. I believe she’s sorry. Kirsten’s young and will say stupid things – didn’t we all? I still can’t stand her.
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You know what is wrong with this whole “statement”
if she would just stop by the i apologize part. it would be fine
but no once again she had to add that she is the victim here and people misunderstand her all the time. that it hurts her and nobody cares more then she does.
and anyways what is that? People Mag? online site? i think that should be addressed via Elle Mag.
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I am not convinced. She is such a self-absorved a-hole and I just can´t stand her face.
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Just a Poster is right…good grief, if things I said at her age were available for public consumption I’d be run off the planet. She seems like a pretty decent gal who just used a poor choice of words.
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hallelujah.
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Soooo HAPPY that she took the right path! I didn’t like her at all until now – I’m giving her some respect!
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I’m glad she apologized, and agree with Praise St Angie that it’s good she apologized for what SHE said, not for how someone took it.
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I agree, she is too young to know how huge this statement was, how injurious to victims, survivors and those of us who love them.
I don’t get any of the excitement about this girl though, granted I’ve never seen the Twilight movies and never will, but she seems so average. Looks like the Willis girls.
Her co-star also puzzles me, looks a little on the not so bright side…
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I am sorry I can’t stand this twit! I think she has no talent whatsoever and is very unattractive even boyish.
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Reading that pissed me off even more. People blown it out of proportion, it wasn’t that big of a deal. Now people could move and get over it.
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@dayjolie – What is a ‘fiender’? I’ve never heard her refer to her fans as retards, but quite frankly, many Twilight fans ARE emotionally retarded. And I’m not making excuses for her ignorance. She made a poor choice in using the word ‘rape’; ‘violated’ would have been much better. She’s apologized. No big deal as far as I am concerned.
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Get over yourselves, it’s my opinion. If you don’t like it, that’s your problem not mine. Let it go and move on. There are more important things going in the world than Kristen Stewart’s rape comment.
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She’s a loser. I like how Taylor Swift said she never gets tired of being famous and successful.
This ungrateful twit needs to STFU!
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I don’t understand why someone is using my IMDB user name to comment on this site.
I’m also seeing the names of other IMDB posters? WTF?
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A single user is copying many of these comments from another site and posting them under several IMDB usernames. It’s ridiculous! I’ve never had anyone “impersonate” me on the internet before and am unsure of what to do here.
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All right, she said sorry. She’s still a pretentious idiot, though.
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Akanni, bring it to the attention of the moderators. they can check to see if multiple commenters are doing it from one IP addy.
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@Akanni: dayjolie, seltash, damourkrist and hayleej all love Kristen Stewart. I agree, someone is impersonating them.
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“I just read it and she didn’t actually apologise did she? Rather she just acknowledged she was wrong.”
Acknowledging that she was wrong is an apology and is much better than the pseudo “I’m sorry if you were hurt” apologies that are popular nowadays. She said she was wrong and she didn’t list all of her work with anti-rape organizations to bolster her credibility. I guess she could apologize to every raped woman in the world, but that seems excessive.
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@Praise
Thank you. I just sent an email to the mods. Many of the comments are being copied from another site and pasted to this one using other people’s (IMDB)user names. Just so you know, folks – half the comments here are spam.
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@Dayzd: You hate Kristen, your the one who’s doing this. Stop impersonating people, moron.
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Akanni – Thanks, there was one person leaving multiple comments under different names. I deleted them.
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I’m glad she apologized. It’s a step in the right direction at least. Now she just needs to read up on WHY people got offended.
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I don’t think she had to apologize. I’m sorry if people misconstrued her statement, but I don’t think she had to apologize. Her statement made sense and was a pretty correct assessment of the situation she (and others) finds herself in every day.
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Good catch, Akanni.
And good for her for releasing this statement. It makes me want to hit her in the face much, much less.
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i didn’t think she needed to apologize for anything. she said what she felt when looking at those invasive photos of her mostly taken during her ‘down time’, rape may be a strong word but if that’s how strongly violated she feels then it is the word to use.
i think she is apologizing because knowing her, she is a very considerate person and if she hurt anybody, she will apologize and eat her pride.
the violation continues though, her photos are still taken, people still ‘tramp’ on her personality/character (even though they don’t know the girl), but in spite of all these, the paps only get ‘the finger’–wow, life is so FAIR!
just because she is paid millions to do movies doesn’t mean people can do what they want with her ‘outside of her workspace’…you don’t like her films, don’t watch it! you like her films, enjoy it!
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Thank you, Kaiser!
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LEAVE KRISTEN ALONE!!! I MEAN IT! LEAVE HER ALONE! SHE HAS A BEAUTIFUL SOUL AND DOES NOT DESERVE ALL THE HATE COMING HER WAY. I LOVE YOU KRISTEN! I’M YOUR #1 FAN!
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WHISKEY FISK- freaking funny! And ITA.
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Hmm, not such a tough girl when her career is on the line…
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Like I said yesterday, she’s young and probably chose a word she thought would accurately portray how she feels. It wasn’t the correct word, and I think her apology is sincere. Next time, she should try using “attacked” or “invaded” or “under a microscope” – those are good choices to describe the paps.
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For some reason, she irritates the piss out of me (probably jealousy) but hey – she owned what she said, she apologized, and that is something I can respect.
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Very respectable apology in my opinion. She owned up to making a mistake, kept the apology simple. I pay no attention to these Twilight people for the most part but clicked here because I’d heard about Stewart’s remarks and wanted to read her apology. I expected it to be something self indulgent but she seemed pretty straightforward about it.
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Nice young woman, everyone makes mistakes, NOT EVERYONE will ADMIT IT though.
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So she’s apologized, good for her. Still doesn’t excuse her severe attitude problems.
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@leafyqueen – Forced sex is not the same thing as getting hounded by photographers. It sickens me that anyone would think they are equal.
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Um Kristen’s career was never on the line, only in your dreams *smile*
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She doesn’t have an attitude problem .. you do. Get over yourself
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@ @ Katija
No, you’re right. Her career won’t be on the line until she’s popped out the half-vampire baby, the credits roll, and American teen girls (such as yourself) move on to the next book craze.
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I didn’t read those initial articles because I knew how freaking irritated reading everyone’s comments and backlash against her would make me.
It was clear what she meant, and if you’ve ever watched the videos of photogs following and crowding young female stars you know that she was right – it’s extremely intrusive and not “What these people signed up”. This recent frenzy around celebs started not but 10-12 years ago, and actors used to be stopped by excited fans not ravenous photogs looking to rile them up for a payout.
Now we confuse those growing up wanting to sing or act with those growing up with reality t.v. stars as their idols -hoping one day to be followed and splashed across magazine covers.
I hear people say “raped by” or “raped with” allllllllllll the time on blogs, and dare I say I think I’ve even read the analogy here. But let’s all get in a fackin’ uproar over KStew and villainize her comment as something more malicious or ignorant than it was. Ugh!
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I feel so bad for her right now. You can tell that this interpretation of her words (which we’re clearly blown up as the main focus) probably really upset her. She is a genuine spirit – she probably feels awful and stupid for ever saying something that could be interpretted the way this comment was.
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of COURSE it matters to her, Kaiser!!
It’s people like you who contribute to her popularity and keep her relevant.
Imagine if no one talked about her and reinforced her presence in Hollywood….She’d fall off the planet and fade into obscurity (which is particularly why I a) think you’re great (ie: you talk about celebs I love and keep me posted on thier “lives” haha) and b) think you should CEASE talking about Speidi entirely, y’know let their 15 mintues EXPIRE once and for ALL
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Deep down she is a bitch who doesn´t deserve all the luck that went her way.She only says she is sorry trying to do some damage control…An uptight snob (God knows why), who took it from her father which badmouthed the franchise Twilight too, a while ago…They should be grateful for the loads of money she made at her age…
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Ugh, you can’t breathe these days without offending someone. Her choice of words may not have been the best but she did not deserve that level of backlash. It didn’t take a genius to realize what she meant when she said “rape” but people chose to blow it up anyway. People just need something to be upset about.
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I’m satisfied. It’s quite unlike her to apologize for herself, and I’m glad she gave the incident some additional thought and acted. Hey look, she’s all of twenty years old, and at times she’s going to say or do the wrong thing. In the end, the mark of her excellence won’t be the errors she’s made, but the quality and haste of the correction. She’s good!
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Good job, K-Stew! Even though her original comment was saddening and offensive, the fact that she has unequivocally apologized makes up for it. The fact that she’s done PSAs for RAINN helps, too. If any lovely readers ever need help finding support for themselves or a loved one who has been sexually assaulted/abused, just call 211. It’s a national helpline that connects you to resources in your area, depending on where you call from. Or visit RAINN.org to find even more resources.
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SHE did not mean to offend anyone she is really young and she gets really nervous in interviews i think what she said made sence and she didnt mean to offend rape victims she was speaking hyperthiclly so give her a fuckin break im only 14 and i no im goin to say and do some stupid shit in my life. she is a great person and a damn good actress!!! so fuck off and get a life and stop hating on her if you were constantly being fallowed and and random people taking pics of you in your damn house how would you feel HUH ??? I LUV YOU KRISTEN and i got your back. dont worry it will all blow off and people will go back to wondering who your dating
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With any luck, after she finishes the Twilight series we will cease to have to deal with her abounding stupidity. These vomit pearls are bound to be in the news as long as she is, it’s the most we can expect, since good acting is not a possiblity.
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go play with your edward doll
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I can’t help but like her. If I was hounded by 12 years olds, the chronically bound to live with their parents and the paps I’d be flipping the bird fifty times a day too.
Oh, and anyone here who thinks they weren’t an idiot when they were 20 is delusional: it’s the law.
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She went over the line with the rape comment but a lot of these paparazzi really do act like stalkers. I once saw a young celebrity come out of a nightclub and a few of these guys were literally making it hard for her to get in her car. Then one of them basically stood in front of the car holding down the picture button so it looked like a strobe light. For like a full minute while the driver was trying to pull away. Eventually the driver had to hold down his horn for 10 seconds and finally some security walked over and physically pushed the guy out of the way.
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We all say some things we regret sometimes, but that was a Megan Fox-like thoughtless verbal diarrhea comment if I ever heard one. At least Kristen actually thought about it later and apologized, I can respect that. Unless he or she is a total narcissist, no one wants to have to deal w/ paps and crazy fans.
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This girl is just a downer. She bitches and complains about everything. If you don’t like the attention and cameras on you, then go home and pick another career, geez.
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Well said, mollination.
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I have to agree with some of the comments that said she should have used another phrase (e.g., violated), and I’m glad she made a real apology, as opposed to saying “sorry if you were offended.”
As it’s already been said, people say stupid and/or offensive things, some of them I’ve read in this thread alone. I wonder what the reaction would be if “K-Stew” used the response that the average blog commenter uses, mainly, if you’re offended, then don’t read the blog/comments, etc?
Regardless of what you think of her, she did apologize, even if is for damage control. Would any of you have done the same if you were famous, or would you pull out the “Free Speech” card?
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Although I think she should publicly be a bit more cordial to the paps since she’s just recently become extra famous I don’t understand the outrage to her comment. A big part of rape is taking control of another person so maybe she feels like the Paps have taken control of her life or other celebs life. I don’t think she meant literal rape. I don’t personally see why so many are bent out of shape. I think she should have just explained what she meant.
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I AM a rape victim and I was never offended with what she said. She really meant no harm and people are making into a lot more than it is.
What I am offended about is why people malicious in what they say about her. One person here is wanting to hit her in the face. That is abuse. Simple.
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well done, kristen.
i understand what she meant the first time and it wasn’t so bad imo. but better to say violated.
Question: why is it wrong to say “rape,” but OK to use the word PIMP all the time like it means nothing? I have a MAJOR problem with that word. It’s an exploitative, violence-against-women word, not a fun-loving, suave and hip term. Again, imo
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