Emma Watson has finally addressed the six-month driving ban which she was given earlier this year.
She was banned for driving too fast
The Harry Potter actress was hit with a driving ban earlier this year after racking up nine points on her license and then driving her blue Audi at 38mph in a 30mph area in Oxford, England.
Watson was also fined
She was also ordered to pay more than £1,000 (around $1,300) in fines.
Watson started studying at Oxford University in 2023 as she began to move away from acting. The last movie she appeared in was Little Women in 2019.
She had to start driving herself
In a new episode of Jay Shetty’s podcast, Watson addressed her recent driving ban, explaining that she was having to drive herself everywhere.
This is something she was not used to as she ‘had to be driven’ places as an actress.
Watson was shocked to learn everyone knew
Explaining the moment she found out her driving ban made the news, the 35-year-old said, “I was getting phone calls, like it’s on the BBC. It’s on international, worldwide news.”
“I was like, my shame is everywhere,” she added.
She was used to being driven
“When you work on movies, I don’t know if people know this, but they literally will not insure you to drive yourself to work. I’ve asked so many times,” Watson explained.
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“You have to be driven, it’s not a choice,” she added.
Watson hadn’t driven in a while
“Especially because they need you there, down to the minute basically depending on what they have going on,” the actress went on.
“So I went from basically only driving myself on weekends or during a holiday, to then, when I became a student, driving myself all the time and I did not have the experience, or skills clearly, which I now will and do.”
She found her new life ‘humbling’
Watson shared that living a normal life now has been ‘humbling’ for her as she found herself unable to do day-to-day tasks despite having been able to shoot movies.
“It’s been a discovery and a journey that’s been humbling because on a movie set, I’m able to do all of these like extremely complex things, stunt, sing, dance, like do this thing, do that, whatever. And I’m like, ‘Yep, don’t worry about it, guys’,” she said.
But normal life is more complicated for her
Watson went on, “And then I get home and I’m like, ‘OK Emma, you seem unable to remember your keys. You seem unable to keep yourself at 30mph in a 30mph speed limit. Like you don’t seem able to do some pretty basic life things’.”
