Emma Watson became famous when she was only 11 years old, and before reaching adulthood she already had millions of fans worldwide and millions of dollars in the bank. She had the world at her feet.

But everything changed in 2008 when she legally became an adult upon turning 18.

In 2016, while talking to Forest Whitaker at New York Arts Week, Emma told him exactly what had happened on the day she turned 18.

“I remember that on my 18th birthday, there was a party and photographers got down on the floor to take pictures up my skirt, and they were published on the front page of a British tabloid the next day. If they had been published 24 days earlier, it would have been illegal, but since I had just turned 18, it was already legal. And obviously, Dan (Radcliffe) and Rupert (Grint), who were my male co-stars, don't wear skirts, but I think it's an example of how my transition to adulthood as a woman was treated differently by the tabloids than the transition to adulthood of my male co-stars.”

Despite the fact that her colleagues were as famous as she was, only Emma's photos were talked about.

She was getting out of a car wearing see-through underwear when the paparazzi snapped photos of her from every angle. Unfortunately, they found a way to photograph exactly what they wanted.

Emma said the British tabloids published them the next day, but what's even worse is that I saw them in newspapers in my own country, which means that Emma Watson, basically a teenager, had to endure seeing the rest of the world sharing her private photos the day after she became an adult.

This is based on an article I read recently as part of my research into a #MeToo Project, that will hopefully eventually become a book that I am working on. I have yet to verify whether it is true or not, but it does stand to make the point about how we should behave in a civilised society.

As always stay safe and well my friends,