The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rose to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s.
Keira Knightleyis still reeling from the way she was treated when she rose to fame in the early 2000s.
“I didn’t think it was okay at the time.
Keira Knightley.Samir Hussein/WireImage
I was very clear on it being absolutely shocking.
There was an amount of gaslighting to be told by a load of men that ‘you wanted this.’
It was rape speak.
Keira Knightley in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ in 2003.Walt Disney/Everett Collection
You know, ‘This is what you deserve.'”
They very specifically meant I wanted to be stalked by men.
It was a brutal time to be a young woman in the public eye."
It totally set me up for life.
Did it come at a cost?
Yes, it did.
It came at abigcost."
“A lot of teenage girls don’t survive that.”
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“Could I, in all good conscience, say to my kid, ‘You should do that?’
No,” she said.
“But am I grateful for it?
But then that’s life, isn’t it?”
She added that, luckily, her kids have yet to express any interest in acting.
Their current career aspirations include owning a candy shop and being a bear.
“I don’t think that’s going to work,” she joked of the latter.
