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As much as she wants to distance herself from the "Snow White and the Huntsman" fallout, it keeps rearing its ugly head for Kristen Stewart.
The actress gets incredibly candid about the reaction to her secret relationship with married director Rupert Sanders in a new interview with Variety, where she refers to the affair as "the scandal."
"Women are so judgmental of each other. It's very innate, instinctive, f---ed-up, animal-like," she says of our society these days. "It was something that was a nuisance. How do you resent me if you've actually never met me?"
While the negative press around the relationship seemed to consume the first movie, she swears it wasn't the reason she didn't return for last month's sequel, "The Huntsman: Winter's War."
"I read a few scripts," she says of possibly returning as Snow White. "None of them were good. None of them were greenlight-able. And I had a meeting with Universal about the places where the story could go. Maybe Chris [Hemsworth] was more into it. I actually don't f---ing know."
"It wasn't a situation where I got kicked off a movie because I got in trouble" Stewart adds. "We had been in talks months after that about making something work, and it never came together."
She tells the publication that she didn't even know a sequel was happening until Universal announced it with a press release.
"I was like, 'OK, cool.' We hadn't spoken in a long time, but I didn't know we had broken up," she continues. While her character did appear in the second film, she was only seen from behind -- and Kristen didn't play her. She tells Variety that Universal did ask her if she'd like to cameo. Her response: "I might just leave that be. I was really into that, but ..."
Considering how the flick tanked in theaters, she adds, "Now I'm like … 'Thank God.'
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With Sanders and Robert Pattinson in her past, the 26-year-old has been spotted with Soko (above) and Alicia Cargile lately ... but she's still not an open book when it comes to her personal life.
"When I was dating a guy, I would never talk about my relationships to anyone," says Stewart. "I feel the same way now. I'm not hiding s---."
"There's acceptance that's become really rampant and cool," she adds of her fluid sexuality. "You don't have to immediately know how to define yourself."
And though she won't put a label on herself, she has no problem showing PDA with her significant others, male or female, when it comes to the paparazzi.
"That's really important to me," she says of recent hand-holding pics. "As much as I want to protect myself, it's not about hiding. As soon as you start throwing up so many walls, you cannot see over them yourself, so you just start isolating in a way that's not honest. I definitely found where I'm comfortable. I don't take credit for that."
For more, check out Variety's full interview with Kristen over at their website!
