{"id":41046,"date":"2025-09-24T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41046\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:22:10","slug":"my-shame-is-everywhere-after-speeding-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41046\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My shame is everywhere\u2019 after speeding ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Watson blamed her film-star lifestyle for preventing her from developing the right road skills as she spoke about the \u201cshame\u201d of her driving ban for the first time. <\/p>\n

The Harry Potter actor said that not having been allowed to drive herself to set because \u201cthey literally won\u2019t insure you to drive yourself to work\u201d meant she lacked practice. <\/p>\n

Watson, who portrayed Hermione in the adaptation of JK Rowling\u2019s books, was handed a six-month driving ban<\/a> for exceeding a speed limit of 30mph earlier this year. <\/p>\n

Speaking on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, she said: \u201cI went from basically only driving myself on weekends or during a holiday to then when I became a student driving myself all the time. I did not have the experience or skills, clearly, which I now will and do.\u201d The actress said a lot of people sent her \u201cnice\u201d messages when the news broke but that her high profile meant the story was on \u201cinternational worldwide news\u201d. She said: \u201cI was like, my shame is everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson was given the ban in July after driving at 38mph in a 30mph zone in her \u00a330,000 Audi S3. She already had nine points on her licence before the offence, which took place in Oxford. <\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Watson in London<\/p>\n

MEGA\/GC IMAGES<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old, who is studying for a doctorate of philosophy in creative writing in the city, was made to pay a total of \u00a31,044. Watson, who is worth an estimated \u00a359 million, did not attend the five-minute hearing. <\/p>\n

Her lawyer said at the time that Watson \u201cfully understands her position and will accept her punishment\u201d. They added: \u201cI ask you to give her credit for the plea of guilty. She is a lady in a position to pay an appropriate fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson said on the podcast: \u201cIt\u2019s been a discovery and a journey that\u2019s been humbling because on a movie set I\u2019m able to do all these extremely complex things: stunts, sing, dance \u2026 and then I get home and I\u2019m like: \u2018OK, Emma, you seem to be unable to remember keys, you seem unable to keep yourself at 30 miles an hour in a 30 mile speed limit. You don\u2019t seem able to do some pretty basic life things.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she had taken up cycling already before the ban which turned out to be \u201cparticularly fortuitous\u201d given the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Watson earned about \u00a350 million for the eight-film Harry Potter<\/a> series<\/a> and \u00a315 million from the remake of Beauty and the Beast. She has not acted since the remake of Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig, in 2019 where she appeared alongside Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. She has launched Renais<\/a>, a gin distillery in Dorset. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Watson blamed her film-star lifestyle for preventing her from developing the right road skills as she spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-41046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}