"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is speaking out about leaving Brown University, and she says that it had nothing to do with bullying.
"It made me so sad when all this stuff came out that I left Brown because I was being bullied. It made no sense at all. Brown has been the opposite. I’ve never even been asked for an autograph on campus. I threw a party for nearly 100 students and not a single person put a photo on Facebook," she told the Sunday Times. "Anyway, even if I was being given a hard time, I wasn’t going to wuss out of university because someone said 'Wingardium leviosa' to me in a corridor, or 'Ten points for Gryffindor.' I’ve been dealing with the media since I was nine. If I can’t stand up to a few people giving me a hard time, it's a bit pathetic, really. I’ve had so much worse."
Watson also says that she's found dating to be difficult, and "the fame wall" gets in the way.
"I say to my friends, 'Why hasn't X called me? Why doesn’t anyone ever pursue me?' They're like, 'Probably because they're intimidated.' It must be the fame wall," she said. "It must be the circus that goes around me. Me, as a person, I find it hard to believe I would be intimidating."
