Keira Knightley: Fame broke something in me

Keira Knightley hate being famous. The British actress admits she’s ill-equipped to cope with being recognized. “I think it broke something in me,” Keira said of fame.

“I was told very early on that if I didn’t go out to openings and parties and events I would be left alone. I didn’t, and they still didn’t leave me alone. I knew it was part of the deal in the life I had signed up to, but the fear of it has never left me. I’m still not good at being recognized. I wear scruffy clothes and hats and keep my head well down. I’m sure people must think I’m a complete b***h, but I’m just very shy.

“I was so young when it started. I was involved in Pirates from the age of 17 until 21. At that time people couldn’t get enough of people falling out of nightclubs with their knickers showing and I wasn’t giving them that — and I think it infuriated them.”

Keira recently admitted she was on the verge of walking away from the movie industry a few years back because she “wasn’t enjoying” her Hollywood career.

“I think I intended not to work again. I wasn’t enjoying what I was doing and I felt terribly guilty about that. I remember hating the idea that I was in a privileged position and couldn’t see the point of any of it,” she said.

“I had worked solidly since I was 16, till 22, and I had not been on holiday in all of that time. I didn’t know if I was going to go back to acting at all. I think for a long time I thought I wouldn’t.”

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