Posted by Adam

Sunday November 15, 2009

ROBERT Pattinson is worried someone might try and give him HIV.

The British actor — famed for playing vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight movie franchise — often fears his life is on the line when he’s out in public.

“People ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair. I just don’t want someone to have a needle and give me HIV and I don’t want to get shot or stabbed,” Britain’s News of The World newspaper quotes him as saying.

The actor, 23, then went onto explain his fans’ weird behavior at the London premiere of Twilight sequel New Moon, which hits theaters November 20.

“There were girls who had scratched the side of their necks, so they were freshly bleeding when they came up to get a signature. They were like, ‘We did this for you’. I didn’t know what to say. ‘Thank you, guys?’” he said.

“This is my life. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I’m staying at. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.”

“I was getting quite scared the other day,” Pattinson adds. “When I go back to London, the only thing I’ve done all year will be to have gone around to cities and have people scream at me and stuff, and ask things like, ‘What’s it like to play the most beautiful person in the world?’ I feel like I have nothing to talk about to my friends any more. It’s going to really destroy me when I go back home.

“But it just makes me more and more conspicuous.

“I’m wearing two hoods, a hat and sunglasses, which kind of stands out in the middle of the night. So I’m learning to sprint.”

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