With fame comes a lot of responsibility.
There is an image to maintain, fans to keep happy, and using your platform for good.
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There are also some drawbacks to being a familiar face. Namely, dealing with harassing fans.
This includes everything from celebs being stalked to people invading their personal space to some even being straight-up attacked.
Here are 10+ times celebs detailed being harassed by fans.
1. Kylie Jenner
The reality star was forced to yell “Don’t touch me!” at a fan who got way too close to her when she was trying to grab dinner in Hollywood.
Later, though, the two made up.
“She wasn’t annoying,” Kylie tweeted. “She came in the restaurant after and I had a talk with her and we took photos.”
She later tweeted that the girl apologized for grabbing so hard and Kylie explained to her that it’s scary when she doesn’t have security.
2. Gigi Hadid
In 2016, the model was the victim of an infamous “prankster” who grabbed and lifted Hadid off the ground at Milan Fashion Week.
When this happened, she fought back by using her elbows to get out of his grip.
“I remember taking the time, as it all felt slo-mo, to look at him, a stranger, and my first reaction was: ‘Get me out of this situation.’ ” she wrote in Lena Dunham’s Lenny newsletter.
“Honestly, I felt I was in danger, and I had every right to react the way I did,” she said .
3. Norman Reedus
The Walking Dead actor has to fend off zombies and biting fans.
“We took this picture and she sort of morphed into a werewolf,” he recalled to Jimmy Kimmel about the time a fan bit him at Walker Stalker Con in 2016.
“She kinda started to shake like that, and then she went up like this and kinda howled.”
After she bit him on the chest and howled again, the fan was escorted out.
“And she came outside and went ‘What happened?’ And they said ‘Ma’am, you just bit Norman, and she said ‘I did?'”
4. Ally Brooke Hernandez
When the Fifth Harmony singer was in a Mexico airport, she almost got dragged away by a fan who jumped out and tugged on her to get a selfie.
The incident was so scary that a security guard intervened.
5. Selena Gomez
The singer found herself in a mob of paparazzi and fans at Paris Fashion Week.
Since so many people were trying to grab her and were crowding around, Selena was understandably shaken up, as shown in the video.
6. Kendall Jenner
The reality star has dealt with several stalkers during her career.
One of the scariest encounters was when stalker Shavaughn McKenzie harassed Kendall by following her to her car and screaming and pounding on the window.
Later, Kendall opened up about the traumatic event on an episode of *Keeping Up with the Kardashians*.
“He goes, ‘I need to talk to you,’ and I was like ‘no, you need to leave.’ I called one of my friends immediately, I’m sobbing, crying. He’s at my window banging on my window screaming at me….” she said .
7. Taylor Swift
When the star was just 23, she hosted a meet-and-greet with fans at the radio station KYGO.
David Mueller, a radio DJ at the station and a fan of Taylor’s, decided to pose in this picture of Swift with David’s girlfriend, Shannon Melcher.
But Mueller allegedly reached up during the photo and grabbed Taylor’s bare rear.
When she gave her testimony against him in a civil trial, she described the incident as, ” horrifying and shocking .”
8. Josh Hutcherson
It’s not just female celebs who deal with harassing fans. The Future Man star shared a scary story on Conan .
He was home in Kentucky for Christmas when fans found his address and showed up on his doorstep.
“It was two young, probably 12, 13-year-old girls with their mom, and … my face was all over their clothing and their cell phones had my face on the back,” he said.
“It was like looking at a bunch of weird mirrors pointing at myself,” he said.
9. Ariel Winter
Sadly, a lot of harassment takes place online. When the Modern Family star was young, she dealt with a lot of inappropriate comments.
One time, a bunch of “fans” pointed out her “braless” look. When this happened, Sarah Hyland came to her defense .
“To all the pervs commenting on this post?” Hyland began.
“GET OFFLINE AND GET BACK TO YOUR BLOWUP DOLL YA CREEPS!”
Fictional sister or not, Hyland always has her sister’s back. She’s also dealt with her own share of harassing comments online.
10. Amy Schumer
The comedian refuses to take photographs with fans after one terrifying encounter.
In 2016, one tried to aggressively take a picture of her despite her declining. “I will not take picture with people anymore and it’s because of this dude in Greenville,” she wrote on Instagram .
11. Millie Bobby Brown
Earlier this week, the actress tearfully broke down about a harassing encounter she had with a fan while she was out Christmas shopping with her mom.
She said that the girl began videotaping her even though Brown had declined.
“I was paying and she walked past me and began to video me again,” Brown tearfully explained. “And I said, ‘I’m a human being. Like, what more can I ask from you?'”
Bobby ended her tearful video by urging her followers to treat others with respect.
