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Kristen Stewart Apologizes for Rape Comments

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Kristen Stewart has apologized after comparing her experience with paparazzi intrusion to rape in the July issue of British Elle.

“I really made an enormous mistake — clearly and obviously,” says the actress. “I’m really sorry about my choice of words.”

Stewart spoke with People magazine in Korea, where she’s promoting Eclipse.

Fans and rape victims’ advocates criticized the star this week after her comments to Elle made their way online. In them, Stewart expresses her frustration with constant paparazzi attention and relates it to sexual assault.

“‘Violated’ definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought,” says Stewart.

Given Stewart’s past work on behalf of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and Security on Campus (SOC) organizations, her sensitivity to the issue of sexual assault is established.

In that light, the Elle comments are regrettable but shouldn’t be immediately interpreted as callousness toward real victims.

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  • KStew_SexyLegs

    Why people are so STUPID. KS shouldn’t have to apologize, she used a metaphor to explain how she feels, being followed by 23343 paps every single day.
    K is an amazing person! the only people who should have to apologize are the F****** HATERS, this ppl are sick, call her BAD names everyday. Some of them wanted see her dead, just becaus she is in love and she is fucking a guy that they cant have. So NO, K shouldnt have to apologize.
    Lets the girl alone… MOVE ON!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marian-Alonso/648546536 Marian Alonso

    i would try & keep my comment short: somethings are just obvious, she was just trying to explain something without malice.
    but after this particular example, no wonder she feels so uncomfortable when people following and making up stories ’bout her life.
    i guess we all enjoy 2 read ’bout celebs coz it makes us feel like we “know” them, but seriously, this girl is an amazing actress, bringing back hope that there ARE young actors who can make a difference and be appreciated throught their work.
    #I_Support_Kristen_Stewart

  • pixie1824

    Well said, GC. That last line sums it up.

  • jeanna

    Kristen did not mean any harm to any of the rape victims or the people who work at any crisis center.Thats not how she rolls.But I guess she will continue to be scrutinized for every word she utters because of stupid people.No one takes into account her nerves at being put on the spot at any given minute of any given day.No shes not perfect shes just a girl who happens to be a very good actress…also beautiful and she has a very kind boyfriend as well.

  • Raven

    The group of women who started the campaign to make her apologize only did this because they hate her. They have a website devoted to hating her and often post plans to physically harm her. Someone please tell me how it’s okay for them to plan causing her physical harm but it’s not okay for Kristen to accurately express how she feels being harassed by the press?

    I think these women and the media’s negative coverage about her interview pretty much proves her point about feeling raped! Kristen needs to know her REAL fans support her 100 percent and we’re smart enough to know exactly what she meant…including those of us who are rape survivors!

    Now can we focus on the part of the interview where she confirms she and Rob are together?!

  • KateWinterman

    I absolutely do not think she intended any malice. However, she really does need to take a breath and to relate to the public and the industry in a healthier way. I agree that the papz are insane and what they do should be considered harrassment and be made illegal. If a non-celebrity were treated that way, they could call the police! But this is her lot and she is damaging her public persona with the negativity.

  • MyKinKStar

    Sorry, but this was just a free opportunity for the cause to get some attention. She obviously did not mean to offend anyone except the paps!

  • Maguilita

    Over-reaction much?… “shouldn’t be immediately interpreted as callousness toward real victims.”… Absolutely agree… I mean, I think we all say things like that and just fail with our choice of words… it’s called living: you fail and have to stand back up…

    The difference here is that there’s so much people listening to each word she says and see each movement she makes… both to be analyzed to the tiniest detail, to make it fit some kind of expectations (whether positive or negative)… So, I agree that the part of her that is a public persona should worry about what comes out of her mouth as it’ll have a great impact on the public, and on people from the buzz she moves on… As most of her fans are under or around 20, it’s probably something to consider when you try to express things like what she wanted to…
    The part of her that is not a public persona can feel raped when taken a picture of, if she wants… if that’s how she feels, whatever… it’s her life…

    And now I’m afraid she will be EXTREMELY cautious with each word she uses… which means no spontaneity in her interviews… and that’s a shame… :(
    Hope she can be spontaneous again when not in the spotlight as she seems to be since this Twilight thing started…

    Thanks GC… :)

  • Suefromnc

    Poor Kristen!!! Why don’t people just leave the kid alone! She is a very thoughtful and sweet person and it is just painful to know she is having to apologize, when we her fans know what she meant and NEVER took it as her making a cheap shot at rape victims. I have seen clips of some of the rotten rotten things the paps yell out at her and Robert and it is exactly like being raped and violated. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. There should be a law against the way the paps talk to stars. We have not learned anything since Princess Diana. Sad!

  • Hard Hearted Hannah

    oh god, it’s true!
    Gossip Cop you’re clearly in favor of Kristen no matter what she does.

  • Alixa23

    The 80 – 20 Balance. Hey, I like balance. It must be hard for actors to maintain the 80 – 20 good business balance with fans, especially with a film franchise. Like, in a well managed business 80 percent of the people are content. The other 20 percent are polar opposites. 10 percent are overly invested, the job dips into their personal lives, they dedicate beyond job requirements, it can bring creative results, but sets them apart from the more standard 80 percent. The 10 percent bottom feeders dislike their polar opposites and are really negative individuals. Issues don’t matter, they will never ever be satisfied or happy, they are doomed to project negative vibes and live to bring others down. They love to bully. Yet, both extremes are needed for balance in a business – to remind the 80 to occasionally step it up or at times be very resistant and overcome the negative. If negativity becomes too vile, balance has to be restored for the health of the business. It seems like KS’s “business” is more complicated because she has associations with a partnership firm and that partner firm’s bottom ten percent is causing negativity problems, too. That partnership firm may have to step up and squash some negativity, and thus restore balance and health for the majority of fans in both camps. Some action would also put on notice that at least in their “businesses” cyberbullying of co-stars, which is becoming annoying and out of control, is NOT okay. But, then again, I like balance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Thomas/100000899894720 Alex Thomas

    That is just wrong…if someone else made those remarks other than her…you all would be given them hell

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Malorie-Weller/1192252207 Malorie Weller

    To Kristen~ I cant believe how much the media or others out there to have asked of you (Kristen) to apologize to comments, statements, words that were said to a magazine interview let alone your own feelings. Freedom of Speech is what we live for…
    I am sorry to hear all the bad individuals in this world we live in and how time is wasted on “bad things” and not “good things” we have done in our life time.
    But I am here to support you (KRISTEN) and to say how much you (KRISTEN) has changed my life around and my family, I have been in your shoes of being shy, and keeping my life private and physicaly changing things that I can change for the best. But I hope you (KRISTEN) get this message so I can share you my life changing story with your (KRISTEN) help.. So you (Kristen) made a difference in my life so dont go feeling to bad on words that were said..Thanks Gossip Cop for sharing Kristens sotry , so Please Gossip Cop let Kristen know I am a big fan of her… =)

  • elledee

    I’m going to keep this short. I have nothing against Kristen Stewart, but as a victim of rape, I was upset by her choice of words. Being raped is like having every bit of dignity and control and self-respect you have being stolen from you in a single, violent act. I understand and appreciate her apology, but I just don’t see how you could compare having your picture taken to being held down and forcibly made to do thing most people could never imagine. It’s like having your soul ripped from your body. I understand completely that there was no malice intended on her part, I just wish she would have thought a bit more before speaking. I harbour no ill-will toward her, and wish her the best. Oh, and to whomever was the first to comment on this subject, I feel the need to tell you that you are an absolute moron.

  • choko

    i think that as her fan, you guys should be proud she owned up to a mistake. no doubt she didn’t mean any harm when she said it, but in reality her word choice does hurt certain people. it certainly made me raise an eyebrow when i flipped through her interview.

    as someone who is extremely camera shy myself, i totally understand the analogy. but at the same time, this is a career path she herself has chosen, and to have the attention of the media and the public is what will give her opportunity to advance in the art she claims she deeply loves. if no one liked her, then there would be no camera, and there would be no opportunity.

    her job is something she really cares about, because no one cares as much as she does….and she showed it with her apology.

    bravo, kristen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carmen-Luiz-Rohde/1286120628 Carmen Luiz Rohde

    She did not need to apologize. Kristen Stewart is an excellent actress.. She did nothing wrong. Word words words. I never would have interpreted Ms. Stewart’s comments as they have been. Ever hear of “out of context?” – For all the critics — get a life. She used a strong word symbolically. She is very well read. She knows what she means to say. Too bad that free speech isn’t as free as we would hope.
    However, I respect her for her sincere and direct apology. She didn’t make any excuses for herself. The apology was to the point and complete.

  • lala

    I am a KS fan but she ASOLUTLEY NEEDED TO APOLOGIZE I understand symbolism, I understand context,but comparing her life as a movie star to the experience of a rape victim especially when her audience is young girls was an error in judgement, she used the wrong words and it showed how mature and gracious she is that she owned up to her mistake…if she hadn’t apologized I would have lost respect for her.

  • dancer1

    I am posting what I wrote to “RAINN” the Rape, Abuse & Incest victims advocate group because I find what their behavior towards Kristen Stewart to be absolutely outrageous!! I don’t understand why people think when the paparazzi is “sexually assaulting” Kristen VERBALLY, that this is ok. She is constantly being “raped” by the words they use. For anyone to say differently is sick.

    This RAINN group NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO KRISTEN AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! SHE’S A VICTIM!

    Here’s what I wrote NOTE: Use of words in a sexual nature is verbal sexual abuse; I needed to make that statement more clearer than I did to RAINN:

    @RAINN01 I’m tweeting you because of your “acceptance” of Kristen’s apology today. Huh? What? Really? Did I read your tweet correctly?

    Your acronym means “Rape, Abuse, and Incest”. Here’s the scenario:

    - A 17/18 year old female is standing at a gas station pumping gas into her car. She is surrounded by at least 15 strange men jamming cameras in her face while filming her and taking her picture while saying vile things out of their mouths to her.

    - A 18/19 year old female coming out of a restaurant surrounded by at least 15 or so men & woman jamming cameras in her face taking her picture and filming her as she tries to run and board a cab, she is verbally harassed and called a “bitch” amongst other things.

    - A 18/19 year old female runs out of a cab and is chased into her hotel by a strange man carrying a camera who proceeds to film her as she tries to hide behind another individual clearly upset and the man continues to film her until the door closes.

    - A 20 year old female traveled 12 or more hours to another country. In an attempt to relax, she goes onto her hotel room’s balcony. She’s subsequently greeted with a large group of unknown men with cameras with long lenses pointed at her room where she showers, changes her clothes, sleeps, walks around nude…cameras…cameras being held by men taking her picture in the privacy of her room’s balcony.

    - A 20 year old girl chased by numerous of unknown strange men thru the streets of this country screaming some of the most vile things at her while taking her picture and filming her.

    - A 20 year old girl returning home walking from the plane to the car surrounded by strange men screaming vile things at her after she just completed a promotion tour…mind you she wasn’t working at the time.

    - A 19 year old female is coming out of her trailer on the film set. A photo is taken of her with her pants unbuttoned. This picture was placed on a country’s national gossip magazine claiming she’s PREGNANT! A 19-year old un-wedded girl’s picture being broadcast around the world claiming that she’s pregnant. *shakes head in shock*

    - An 18 year old female being secretly filmed in a hotel parking lot along with her mother speaking to a friend. The girl doesn’t even know that she’s being filmed by strange men hiding somewhere near by until the video and pictures were posted on the internet.

    - An 18 year old female is standing on the balcony of her friend’s hotel room having pictures taken of her while pictures are being taken of her friend actually through the window of the hotel room. There were more intrusive pictures taken of them having lunch etc… at the hotel.

    THERE ARE MORE EXAMPLES BUT I THINK YOU GET THE POINT.

    At the age of 17, 18, 19 and 20 this female can be seen in pictures and film running, ducking attempting to hide from hordes of strange men screaming vile things at her. She is so scared that she is afraid to drive her car because strange men are chasing her and are assaulting her verbally and assaulting her space denying her privacy.

    This same female has continuously made every attempt to avoid any place where these hordes of men hang out but yet they find her and attack her at every chance they get. She’s not seeking them out in any way.

    What I find offensive by you wanting an apology is the fact that you failed to protect- speak out against those who are assaulting this female. A female who feels “raped” by the process. “Raped” and “used” by “the system” just to make money off of her image and her private life which she goes to tremendous lengths to protect in any way she can.

    YOU FAILED TO PROTECT AND DEFEND PUBLICLY A YOUNG LADY WHO’S BEING ASSAULTED. What? Verbal assaults don’t count. Being harassed and having vile things screamed at you doesn’t warrant your protection?

    Oh, I see, it just because they haven’t committed a “sexual” act it is ok for these men to assault in other ways. I see. As long as men verbally assault you it’s ok. Not to mention pointing cameras into your hotel room and chase you into hotels and restaurants and surround your car while you’re driving it’s all good.

    AS a female I am embarrassed and insulted by your organization. How dare you think it’s ok
    for a men to “rape” a female in a non-sexual manner physically but have at her verbally and while you’re at it, film it in the process.

    HOW DARE YOU EVEN CONSIDER YOURSELF A PROTECTOR OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN “ABUSED” BY THEIR ASSAULTER?!!!

    KRISTEN IS BEING ABUSED!! A-B-U-S-E-D!!! ABUSED!

    Kristen = The Abused….Paparazzi = Assaulter

    “Abused” as defined by dictionary.com:

    - to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way;

    - to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign;

    - harshly or coarsely insulting language;

    - bad or improper treatment; maltreatment

    I have to say this but WTF are you thinking to asked a female, Kristen, to apologize using the word “rape” when in essence anyone with half of a brain knows she wasn’t saying she was sexually assaulted but being “raped” by the paparazzi…Her privacy is being “raped”.

    Understand definitions. A “place” can be “raped”. For example, when Michael Crichton wrote in “Jurassic Park”: “Discovery is always the rape of the natural world. Always.” http://tinyurl.com/29g7mr5

    Did you protest him? Did you protest his use of the word “rape”? How can a world be “raped”? How can a world be “sexually assaulted?” If you did protest him, you’d be wrong.

    Dictionary.com defines “rape”: to plunder (a place); despoil.

    This is what Crichton was discussing. However, Kristen was stating her feelings, I believe under this portion of the definition:

    “to seize, take, or carry off by force.”

    The paparazzi takes her pictures by force; by placing her under seizure by surrounding her and then verbally abusing her in the process.

    KRISTEN HAS NO REASON TO APOLOGIZE!! She’s RIGHT!! She’s being “raped” not in the sexual nature but by the actions of the paparazzi.

    Kristen is cerebral. She was expressing angst with the paparazzi in an intellectual manner but not to insult or hurt or trying to place herself as an actual “rape victim” but as a victim of a “rape of her privacy”. Of her self-being.

    Kristen is hurting inside. She’s calling out for help and all you did to her today was have her being “raped” over and over again by the press.

    You should be defending her. Protecting her. Sticking up for her and telling the paparazzi to stop what they’re doing. Stop surrounding her and verbally assaulting her. And yes, they are physically assaulting her at times as well by pushing and shoving into her body guards trying to get a stupid picture.

    What you did today to another female who is hurting is unforgivable. This young woman is trying to do the right thing by not going places where the paparazzi are known to be. But when she has to do her job as an actress and go out in public for meetings, appearances, filming etc…that’s the only time they can find her.

    Kristen is not trying to be FAMOUS. She’s trying to be an actress. And yes, the paparazzi are raping her. Everyday…

    YOU OWE HER AN APOLOGY! Her, as well as me and every other female you are supposed to be defending and protecting from abuse…and not just sexual abuse either.

    The hypocrisy is palpable. Your acronym means Rape, ABUSE, and Incest. My best friend was not only physically ABUSED by her ex-husband but verbally ABUSED by him as well. Apparently, it’s ok for stranger to verbally abuse Kristen.

    What you did to Kristen today was worse than what any paparazzi has done to her. You failed to protect her. You failed to defend her. You failed to recognized a female who is hurting, who is reaching out for help…SO the words may not be the best way of expressing herself although I think I pretty much debunked that theory, however, you FAILED to defend her. You FAILED to protect her. YOU FAILED.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laura-Gobis/1518067089 Laura Gobis

    Dancer.. for once I am with you 100% WELL STATED!

  • pixie1824

    Dancer1, I agree. Well said. I was very upset when I learned that RAINN was going after her.

  • Sandyeddiag

    What is this? A rag designed to protect Kristen and Robert? Every post I read about them from this Gossip Cop, not only appears to be lashing out at other rags for criticizing Robert and/or Kristen, but GC seems to be defending them, and not reporting the news…….How strange. Is this Gossip Cop being paid by Robert, Kristen, and/or Summit? What is going here? And what’s with Gossip Cop making fun of other rags for quoting “insiders”. Gossip Cop acts as if though it is getting its information from Robert and Kristen, yet Gossip Cop is quoting “sources and insiders” too. So why should I believe Gossip Cop??……..Then there are people writing on her ” Oh thank you Gossip Cop for debunking this story”…..Well who is going to debunk Gossip Cop’s “Stories”, because they are merely telling “stories” they got from “sources and insiders GC claims are close to Kris and Rob”. Yeah right.

  • Sandyeddiag

    @ Dancer 1: Anybody that takes the time and write this much bullshit on a comment blogger is about as crazy as the idiot that compared rape to being photographed by the papps.

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