Twilight actress Ashley Greene believes that in the past, some men have tried to use her fame for their own purposes. She says that although they deny they aren’t looking for press attention, they want to go to places where the paparazzi lurk and then the alarm bells go off and she knows that they really want to be seen with her and that’s something that matters to them:
“When I’m dating a guy and he says, ‘I don’t want press’, and then says, ‘Let’s go to Katana for dinner’ – I’m like, ‘Really? You don’t want to just walk down the street to some dive? You don’t want to get photographed but you want to go to a place where you know there’s paparazzi?’”
Ashley says that dating can be more complicated and harder to deal with in the spotlight, and often times she wishes she could simply go home and be her old self in order to date like a normal person:
“Dating is a hard, hard thing when you have this job. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It’s really frustrating whenever I can’t go and do something because I know it’s going to be on the internet.”
She reveals that it’s even come to a point where she can’t step out with anyone male for fear of being accused of dating the person she’s spotted with:
“It’s really frustrating whenever I can’t go and do something because I know it’s going to be on the internet. Like if I go to a friend’s house, they’ll be, ‘She’s dating him!’ It’s like, ‘Oh, am I dating my brother now? Is that what’s happening?’ Or when they write that I was with a ‘mystery man’, and I’m like, ‘He’s gay, by the way, so it is a mystery!’”
