Emma Watson speaks out on a massive misery she believed was completely embarrassing
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has finally sat down to reveal the facts about her driving ban and the embarrassment that went with it, once it broke in mainstream media.
For those who are not aware, the ban in question occurred last July this year when the actress was spotted driving at 38mph in a 30 zone in Oxford, in her Audi.
The ban specifically occurred because she already had nine penalty points and this one pushed it up to 12.
The entire discussion took place on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast and found her stating, “I’ve just started cycling. Yes, I did start cycling before my driving ban, but now it’s especially lucky that I also cycle for that reason.”
After it reached the mainstream media she also remembered how “I was receiving phone calls. Like, it’s on the BBC, it was on international, world news! I was like, ‘My shame.’ It is everywhere.”
And then there were “so many messages” the Little Women actress continued. From those who told her it “happened to me too” and some even wrote, “I feel you, this is terrible, it s****” the actress remembered.
Emma Watson remembers her greatest embarrassment: ‘I don’t have the experience or skills’
When you worked on films — I don’t know if people realize this — they literally will not insure you to drive yourself to the job. At one point she also described why she wound up amassing all these points and confessed, “I’ve asked so many times. You have to be driven. It’s not a choice. Particularly because they need you there down to the minute, effectively, depending on what they have scheduled.
“So I moved from pretty much only driving myself at weekends or during holiday to when I was a student, driving myself every day. I lacked the experience and skills, obviously, which I now will and do.”
