Overview
- Knightley says photographers yelled sexual slurs, especially when she was with male relatives or partners, to provoke confrontations.
- She recalls paparazzi trying to incite punches for lawsuits and forcing people off roads to profit from crash photos.
- To devalue images, she wore the same jeans, stripy T-shirts and boots every day and gave away her other clothes.
- When followed, she would stop and stand still for hours, including one five-hour standoff, until photographers left.
- She considered quitting acting and slipped away to travel Europe by train for anonymity; she was 18 when Pirates of the Caribbean made her a global star and now appears in a Netflix release.