Keira Knightley recently told The Times of London that “I went mad” during the height of “Pirates of the Caribbean” fame as the paparazzi descended onto her life and stalked her every move.

“It was mostly ‘whore’ [they’d shout],” the actor said. “‘Slut’ sometimes. Particularly if I was with someone — a boyfriend, my brother or my dad. They were trying to get a reaction out of them — provoking people into punching them, so they could sue. And that was the time the crashes started happening — they were forcing people off the roads, then getting even bigger money for pictures of a crashed actress or whatever. And then Britney shaved her head so it was like, ‘Great — we can push them into doing something fucking crazy.’”

Knightley said she went into survival mode and “started wearing the

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