Theron compares press coverage of her life to rape
If there was an Academy Award for inappropriate analogies, Charlize Theron would win in a landslide.
The star of 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' compared the constant intrusion of photographers and gossip press prying into her personal life to rape in an interview with Britain's Sky News.
'When you start living in that world, and doing that, you start feeling raped,' Theron told the television news agency Thursday after she was asked if she Googles herself.
Questioned further about the blunt comparison, the actress added: 'Well, when it comes to your son and your private life. Maybe it's just me.'
Maybe she should have realized those comments would spark plenty of backlash across social media.
'She should try telling that to a real rape victim,' tweeted one commenter.
Theron could've paid more attention to the cautionary tale of her 'Snow White and the Huntsman' co-star, Kristen Stewart. The starlet had to apologize after an a 2010 British Elle interview in which she compared seeing herself in gossip magazine photos to 'looking at someone being raped.'
More recently, Gwyneth Paltrow created her own PR mess by comparing abuse from Internet trolls to being a soldier during war time.
Theron stressed that she wasn't complaining as a pampered millionaire who jets to London first class on the studio's dime. She was complaining as a single mother of a two-year-old son who is a constant target of paparazzi lenses.
'My job has made my life incredibly blessed and good and I am very grateful for that, but it does not mean that every aspect of my life all of a sudden becomes fodder for an article,' Theron told Sky News.
'I try to protect against that as much as I can.'
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