Kristen Says She Was Slut-Shamed For Affair With Married Director, But Admits 'Mistakes'

“We lived in a very different time period then. Like the slut-shaming that went down was just like so absurd. And they should've put me in that movie. It would've been better. Not to be a d**k but like,” Stewart told Stern, 65, explaining that they didn’t invite her to start in the movie’s 2016 sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War.

“You're saying there was slut-shaming of you?” Stern asked.

“Well, they didn’t put me in that movie, because I went through that highly publicized scandal,” Stewart said.

“Oh, with the director,” Stern said.

“Yeah, they were scared of touching that again,” the actress replied.

“Well isn’t that dumb though, that they didn't put you in that movie because you fell in love with the director?” Stern asked.

“Well, I wouldn’t say that I fell in love with the director,” Stewart said.

“Right. You had an affair,” Stern replied.

“Yeah, it was a weird thing. but... like it wasn't that big of a deal… you know what I'm saying? It wasn't that big of a deal,” Stewart continued, explaining that “the work is so much more important,” and they still should have offered her the part.

“And it's like the second movie, we could have done it in a functional and healthy way. And then we didn’t ultimately do that, and that's okay because I did other stuff and that was fine. But yeah that was weird,” she said.

“So you were blamed for you not being in the second movie, just because you had sex with somebody? That's what you're telling me?” Stern asked.

“I did not f**k him,” Stewart replied. “This is the most candid interview.”

“Oh, you didn't f**k him, so why not clear that up and say that?” Stern asked.

“Well, who is going to believe me? It doesn't even matter,” the star replied.

“Well, I will believe you,” Stern said.

“Honestly I feel like you do and I feel like this is the most honest setting I've ever been involved in,” Stewart admitted.

“You have been so honest through this. So why did it get pegged as you were f***ing him?” Stern asked. “You were dating Robert.”

“Well, because it looked like… you know, if you make out with a dude in public it definitely looks like…” Stewart said.

“Oh, so it was an innocent looking thing the media made it out to be a big deal?” Stern asked.

“I mean look, it wasn't innocent. That was a really hard period in my life. I was really young,” the actress said.

She then spoke of her years-long romance with Pattinson, with whom she fell in love with while the two were playing Bella and Edward in the Twilight series.

“Yeah, I didn't know how to really deal with that. I made some mistakes,” she admitted.

Also in the interview, Stewart revealed that she truly thought her relationship with Pattinson was “it,” and she did want to marry him at the time. But still, the pressure of maintaining a stable relationship while in the spotlight got to be too much for them, and it became quite difficult.

“We didn't walk down the street holding hands because we were like, 'We don't wanna give it to ‘em,’” she said, talking about the media in general. “But then, we didn't get to walk down the street holding hands, and it sucked.”