Sophia Bush will always remember this scary and gross incident with a fan.
Throughout an look on the Podcrushed podcast on Wednesday, the 40-year-old actress seemed again at one of many worst encounters she’s ever had with a fan throughout her profession. She recalled going out together with her buddies at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day to seize a beer sooner or later when a random man sat down subsequent to them and tried to take an image. And within the means of taking it, Sophia stated he almost hit her within the face with the telephone. OMG?!
Instantly, she requested him to cease and go away her alone. However as a substitute of respecting her request, he returned to his seat and continued videotaping her from his desk. After half an hour of him recording her, Sophia advised host Penn Badgley that she went over and confronted him:
“Like, I’m not a zoo animal. I see you, I hear you, is my thought course of. And he retains going and he’s getting rowdy. And I can hear him swearing. I lastly go over and I say, ‘Hello, I’m an individual. I’d prefer to shake your hand. My title is Sophia. You’re making me actually uncomfortable, man. I’ve requested you to cease. I’m a lady in a bar. You’re a man I have no idea. I don’t wanna be videoed in your telephone. And my buddies don’t both. Are you able to please cease?’”
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Nevertheless, that didn’t occur. The One Tree Hill alum remembered the person grew to become very offended at her for coming as much as him:
“And he was like, ‘I don’t should cease. You’re in public.’ And I stated, ‘Okay, however is there no world in which you’ll be able to perceive that you’re making me really feel, you’re making me really feel like a chunk of meat, like I’m not human?’ And he goes, ‘I watch your present, so I pay your f**king wage. You’re a piece of meat to me.’ And I simply went, ‘What?’”
There’s a strategy to method a celeb as a fan with out treating them like an object or commodity, and this man went about it in a very disrespectful and disgusting method. Who says one thing like that?! She can be allowed to get pleasure from her trip with out having somebody shoving a telephone immediately into her face (particularly when she already requested him to cease) or making her really feel very uncomfortable.
Sophia stated a lady at his desk then stepped in and tried to finish the confrontation. However the man continued to take issues method too far:
“A woman at his desk went, ‘Okay, okay sufficient. You actually should cease.’ And I stated, ‘Do you perceive the best way you’re speaking to me?’ And he goes, ‘You’re only a TV prostitute.’”
What the precise f**okay. When issues escalated right into a bodily altercation, Sophia ended up going house. So, so terrible. With this expertise in thoughts, the John Tucker Should Die star later famous that she doesn’t care if folks understand her as being “good,” and she or he would reasonably they assume she’s simply “actual,” explaining:
“I simply don’t know what we’re doing right here if we’re not determining how you can be right here collectively in a greater method. So I’d a lot reasonably folks say, ‘god, she has so much to say,’ or ‘she is a ache within the ass,’ than she appears good. I don’t wanna be good. I wanna be right here with you, with us, for actual, as a result of we don’t get to be right here for that lengthy within the grand scheme of issues.”
What a horrible scenario Sophia needed to take care of. A word for followers in every single place: Don’t do that or say issues like this to an individual — irrespective of who they’re! Reactions, Perezcious readers? Tell us within the feedback beneath.
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