3 Times Celebs Have Compared Paparazzi to Rape

Sometimes celebrities just can't help themselves.

Though Kanye West has said plenty of questionable things over the years in his notorious rants, his July 4 comments at the Wireless Festival 2014 in London -- where he compared paparazzi coverage to rape -- had plenty of people offended.

"I don't care what you do in life, everybody needs a day off, everybody has the right to say, 'You know what, I need a minute to breathe,'" Kanye told the crowd (via The Independent) about getting sentenced to two years of probation following a fight with a paparazzo in 2013. "I want to bring my family to the movies without 30 motherf*****s following me. Everybody here, they like sex right? Sex is great when you and your partner are like, 'Hey, this is what we both want to do.' But if one of those people don't want to do that, what is that called? That's called rape. That is called violation."

"So if I walk around and say, 'Look sir, I'm not feeling so good today, I need some space, can you please not f**k with me today?' I need cut-off space, not violation."

Not surprisingly, some festival-goers reportedly loudly booed the controversial rapper and left during his 20-minute rant.

Though Kanye is hardly the only celeb to liken media intrusion to rape -- check out more stars who've faced some backlash for the questionable analogy. 

While promoting her comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West, Charlize Theron got serious about explaining why she doesn't Google herself.

"I don't [Google myself]," she revealed to Britain's Sky News, when her interviewer admitted that he had conducted an internet search of her name prior to their meeting. "That's my saving grace. I think it's when you start living in that world and doing that, you start feeling raped."

When asked if really felt that strongly about it, Theron didn't back down.

"Well, you know when it comes to your son and your private life. Maybe that's just me. Some people might relish all that stuff but there are certain things in my life that I think of as very sacred and I am very protective over them," she stressed.

Kristen Stewart's famous 2012 apology to Robert Pattinson after getting caught allegedly cheating with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders wasn't her only public apology -- Stewart also apologized in 2010 for comparing her dealing with the press to being raped. "What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction," she explained to British Elle. "The photos are so … I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time I can't handle it. I'’s f**ked. I never expected that this would be my life."

She later fully apologized for the insensitive comments.

"I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously," she told People. "And I'm really sorry about my choice of words. I've made stupid remarks before, and I've always reasoned: 'Whatever. They can think what they want.' 'Violated' definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought."