Celebs who hate being famous from Kristen Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe, Jennifer Lawrence to George Clooney

Celebs including Kristen Stewart, Shailene Woodley, Shia LaBeouf, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Julia Roberts, Vanessa Hudgens, Daniel Radcliffe, Lady Gaga, George Clooney have got used to the spotlight but still feel that they cannot escpae the fame

Jennifer Lawrence skyrocketed into mega stardom after her starring role in The Hunger Games in 2012.

But the mother-of-one felt the price of fame after becoming the victim of trolling, nude leaks and paparazzi invasion.

At the age of 23 in 2013, Lawrence first spoke openly about the lack of privacy she was afforded simply for being a known celebrity.

“If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action,” Lawrence told Vogue.

“But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma’am, there’s nothing we can do. It makes no sense.”

After stepping back from Hollywood and laying low for several years, Lawrence re-emerged into the spotlight with an emotional interview with Vanity Fair in 2021 about how difficult the last decade had been.

“I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right,” she recalled.

“If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life.”

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Kristen Stewart

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The Spencer star described fame and Hollywood aspiration as the “worst thing in the world”.

“Fame is the worst thing in the world,” she said.

“Especially if it’s pointless. When people say, ‘I want to be famous’ – why? You don’t do anything?”

When she was 19, the Oscar-nominated actress said the intense Twilight fandom was crippling.

“I have a really strong feeling that this is going to go away, that this is the most intense it’s going to get — and could get — and that it’s fleeting,” she said in 2009, at the height of the rabid Twilight obsession.

Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley has made no secret of her difficult relationship with fame.

The Divergent actress told Paper magazine in 2011 that she thinks the word celebrity is “nasty”.

“I’m fine with saying the normal ‘F’ and ‘C’ words, but ‘famous’ and ‘celebrity’ are off-limits in my book,” she admitted.

“I just think they are nasty words.”

Woodley shies away from the spotlight as much as she can because she rejects the idea of fame altogether.

“The ‘fame’ word was hard for me because it felt like there was a separation between me and everyone else,”.

“And I feel like that word alone is so stigmatised and there’s so many connotations associated with it that for a long time I refused to even acknowledge it.”

Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson may be in the spotlight again thanks to his new movie The Batman, however the actor has been vocal about his distaste for being famous.

In a 2014 interview after finding fame in the Twilight series, the 35-year-old described fame like being in a “prison”.

“I had people sitting outside my house every single day, and it drove me crazy,” Pattinson revealed.

“I didn’t go into a supermarket for about six years.”

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts made a name for herself as the rom-com queen of the 1990s, but the tabloid drama and paparazzi invasion caused the actress to despise her newfound fame.

“Why should I have to explain something that’s never been an issue in my life?”.

“But I’m forced to, because every paper in the country is writing that I’m a drug addict.”

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens became a tween idol after starring in the High School Musical series in the mid-2000s.

The Disney alum faced a nude photo leak and was bombarded with paps over her relationship with co-star Zac Efron, leaving Hudgens to be very jaded about the idea of fame.

“I did not want to be a celebrity … I think fame is just something that comes along when you are in something that is such a success,” she told the Daily Telegraph in 2007.

After starring in more films and cementing her name as a serious actress, Hudgens still wasn’t fond of her celebrity status.

“I don’t like the word fame”.

“I love being an actress and I love pushing myself, and doing different things, and I love that people appreciate what I do, but like I said, I don’t like that word. It turns into something else I think.”

Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf has shared some choice words about how fame has impacted his life.

The Transformers star prefers to avoid the spotlight despite starring in blockbuster films, once even describing fame as akin to “enslavement”.

“The requirements to being a star/celebrity are namely, you must become an enslaved body,”

“Just flesh — a commodity, and renounce all autonomous qualities in order to identify with the general law of obedience to the course of things.”

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish achieved worldwide stardom at just 13 — and the harsh celebrity spotlight certainly had an impact on her formative years.

The Bad Guy singer rejected the male gaze as she grew older by wearing loose and non-gender conforming clothing, worried her body shape would eclipse her talent in the Hollywood gossip machine.

“I hated going outside… I hated being recognised,” Eilish told the LA Times of her early fame.

“I don’t mean this in a necessarily negative way, but I sort of lost my teenage years, because this all started when I was 13,”.

“There is no training, there’s no like, let me go to a school that’s going to teach me how to be famous. Also, that would suck. That would be trash school … Famous people suck. Fame is trash.”

George Clooney

George Clooney has been in the public eye since the 1980s, so he is well aware of the pitfalls of fame.

Despite being 34 when fame truly hit, Clooney admits it has been a difficult road to accept his life in the spotlight.

“Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it,” he told Lifetime magazine.

“And that’s not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you’re not careful.”

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has found success in both the music and acting world, catapulting her into unbelievable worldwide stardom.

But despite working hard in her early years to “make it”, the singer-turned-actress — real name Stefani Germanotta — confessed she “hated” being famous.

“I hated being famous. I hated being a star. I felt exhausted and used up,” she told CBS in 2020.

Gaga admitted: “I used to wake up in the morning, and I would realise I was ‘Lady Gaga.’

“And then I became very depressed and sad, and I didn’t want to be myself. I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life.”

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe is another celebrity who shot to fame as a youngster.

Despite initially enjoying the glitz and glamour from his time filming the Harry Potter series, Radcliffe has spoken about his struggle with being so well-known.

“Ultimately, the hardest thing about growing up in the spotlight, it’s not the easy access to drugs or the strange, sort of pandering world you enter into,”