Scarlett Johansson released a statement following a Paparazzi scare that occurred after filming Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote Avengers: Endgame.
NBC Los Angeles claimed Scarlett Johansson was said to have been taken to the Los Angeles Police Hollywood station after leaving the taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! with two other people. Captain Steve Lurie confirmed Scarlett Johansson, who was not driving, believed the Paparazzi were “following her in a dangerous fashion” and she was frightened. A spokesperson for the LAPD made the following statement to ET:
“Last night Scarlett Johansson was at ‘Jimmy Kimmel’. At some point in time, the paparazzi overpowered her security and for her security reasons and for her security team, they were taken to the Hollywood police station. At that point, she was later able to leave the station. There was no crime report taken. She was just a little spiffed.”
ET obtained the following statement Scarlett Johansson made about the incident:
“The paparazzi consistently go to increasingly dangerous lengths to stalk and harass the people they are photographing. Even after Princess Diana’s tragic death, the laws were never changed to protect targets from the lawless paparazzi. Many paparazzi have criminal pasts and will perform criminal acts to get their shot.
Yesterday, after leaving ‘Jimmy Kimmel [Live]’, I was followed by five cars full of men with blacked out windows who were running red lights and putting other drivers and pedestrians at risk so they could follow me to find out where I was staying and subsequently stalk me and my young daughter for the duration of my stay. The paparazzi put people’s lives at risk, so they can wait for days in quiet neighborhoods in blacked out cars, and try to follow me to the playground and photograph my child and other people’s children in a safe place that should be off limits, but isn’t.
All of this is perfectly legal. After yesterday’s incident, I felt it was my duty as a concerned citizen who was being pursued dangerously and stalked to go to the local precinct and seek guidance there. I would encourage others in a similar situation to go to the police. Women across the US are stalked, harassed and frightened and a universal law to address stalking must be at the forefront of law enforcement conversations.”
Scarlett Johansson concluded her statement by saying, “until paparazzi are considered by the law for the criminal stalkers they are, it’s just a waiting game before another person gets seriously injured or killed, like Princess Diana.”
Scarlett Johansson reprises her role as Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame and will return for the character’s first standalone film, which is scheduled to begin production this year.
The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured the Avengers ranks compels the remaining Avengers to take one final stand in Marvel Studios’ grand conclusion to twenty-two films, “Avengers: Endgame.”
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Brolin.
Avengers: Endgame will be released in theaters on April 26, 2019.
Source: ET Canada
