Megan Fox felt “traumatized by fame” after she was thrust into the spotlight as a teenager.
Megan Fox has opened up about her struggle with fame
The Hollywood actress appeared in 2004 film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and in TV sitcom Hope Faith before landing her breakout role in 2007 blockbuster Transformers, but Megan admits becoming famous on the back of that film was extremely difficult for her and she was filled with “grief and sorrow and also anger and rage”.
Speaking at a screening of her 2009 movie Jennifer’s Body in Los Angeles on Saturday (25.10.25), Megan was asked what advice she would give to her younger self and she told the audience: “Oh, I don’t know that I would give myself advice.
“I think where I was at that point in my life, so lost, so full of that rage that I had towards how I had been treated in the industry and how I was dealing with fame and the constant … at that time, before we started filming [Jennifer’s Body] … “
Megan admitted she struggled to deal with the attention from the paparazzi after becoming well-known and she was grateful to land the role in Jennifer’s Body – about a teenage girl who becomes possessed by a demon and murders her classmates – because it gave her an outlet for her feelings.
She said: “I had all of this grief and sorrow and also anger and rage that needed a place to go. And like I said, being able to just have the permission to be unhinged even in between takes or maybe the entire time we were there, that was very cathartic for me …
“I read the script and I think it just resonated with me because there’s something about that, whether it’s just perceived or not, I felt like I was being persecuted at that time in my career, and I was struggling a lot with fame and kind of traumatized by fame.
“And so I resonated with those deeper layers of … you know, before she becomes a monster, she’s just a teenage girl who gets sacrificed for somebody else’s gain.
“And that very much resonated because that’s kind of how I got … I came into this industry, I think I was 19 when I made my first big movie, and that, I felt like, was reflecting back these energies that existed inside of myself.”