Kristen Stewart: `Sometimes I become reclusive`

The fiercely private Twilight actress said that she goes through periods when she just can’t face being recognized.

She told Parade magazine, “Sometimes I can become very reclusive. Sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t deal with anything right now, I cannot see anybody.’ Like the idea of going into a 7-11 and having someone look into your face, you are like, ‘Agghh!’ You are just so sort of like, ‘Oh God, they are probably taking in like every little thing’.”

But the 21-year-old, who is dating her on-screen love Robert Pattinson in real life, conceded that she seems to have got better at giving interviews as she’s aged.

“When it comes to acting, I’ve always been pretty solid and together ever since I was 10 years old on a film set. Doing interviews was hard, but now I’m more able to speak freely about things that affect me,” she explained.

“I think before I was just a little bit caught up in expressing things that were, like, so important to me with 500 people that I didn’t know listening. And then more so, the millions of people out there who’d see me. It’s not about growing up. I think as you get older you just change.”