Scarlett Johansson has spoken out about the nude pictures of her that were leaked online last year, admitting she felt ‘absolutely violated’ and more ‘vulnerable’ than she had ever before.
The 27-year-old actress’ personal email account was hacked and two pictures of her taken on her mobile phone while posing semi-naked were leaked.
One showed her standing naked in front of a mirror with just a bed-sheet covering her front while she stands back and takes a snap on her camera phone.
Another appeared to be a topless shot of her laying back on a bed showing her breasts while she seductively stares into the camera.
But after remaining relatively tight-lipped about the incident, laughing it off by claiming at the time: ‘I know my best angles’, Scarlett has admitted just how much it scared her and how unsafe it made her feel.
‘It was really terrible; I felt absolutely violated. I wasn’t really aware of how vulnerable all of us are, but I think everybody is just discovering that now, especially with the recent phone-hacking scandals,’ she revealed to Stylist magazine.
‘It isn’t just celebrities, it’s all kinds of people who are not asking for the spotlight. Being hacked made me feel more vulnerable than I ever had previously. I couldn’t figure it out,’ Scarlett added.
Scarlett went on to reveal she even started to fear it was a friend who had gone behind her back and posted the pictures online.
She continued: ‘For a while, I thought it must be someone that I knew who was posting these pictures of me and that was making me incredibly paranoid.
‘I was looking around at all of my friends, who I have known for 20 years, wondering who the backstabber was. So to find out it wasnât a friend who hacked in was a relief, oddly.’
Scarlett previously admitted the photos of her were intended for her husband at the time, actor Ryan Reynolds.
Shrugging off the furore that surrounded the leaked snaps, the Vicky Cristina Barcelona actress, who split from Reynolds in December 2010 after being married for just two years, joked: ‘I know my best angles.’
‘They were sent to my husband. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not like I was shooting a porno â although there’s nothing wrong with that either,’ she said.The FBI were called in to investigate after the photos appeared on numerous online gossip sites claiming to be her.
Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Florida, was eventually arrested and charged with hacking Scarlett’s account.
He had been investigated as part of the FBI’s ‘Operation Hackerazzi’ for hacking into other celebs’ phones including Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Hudgens and Mila Kunis.
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