{"id":2048649,"date":"2025-09-25T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2048649"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:44:43","slug":"actress-emma-watson-breaks-silence-on-humbling-driving-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/actress-emma-watson-breaks-silence-on-humbling-driving-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Emma Watson breaks silence on ‘humbling’ driving ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson has finally broken her silence on her ‘humbling’ driving ban which she received in July.<\/p>\n

The actress, 35, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the film franchise, was banned from driving for six months in July and had to pay a total of \u00a31,044 after driving her blue Audi at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford on July 31 2024.<\/p>\n

Ms Watson, who has been studying at the University of Oxford, had nine points on her licence before the speeding incident occurred.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the On Purpose podcast with Jay Shetty about the ban, which made headlines at the time, Ms Watson said: \u201cI was getting phone calls, like it\u2019s on the BBC. It\u2019s on international, worldwide news.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was like, my shame is everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Watson revealed she received messages from people who sympathised with the actress and shared their own driving mishaps with the star.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWhen you work on movies, I don\u2019t know if people know this, but they literally will not insure you to drive yourself to work. I\u2019ve asked so many times.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be driven, it\u2019s not a choice. Especially because they need you there, down to the minute basically depending on what they have going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I went from basically only driving myself on weekends or during a holiday, to then, when I became a student, driving myself all the time and I did not have the experience, or skills clearly, which I now will and do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a discovery and a journey that\u2019s been humbling because on a movie set, I\u2019m able to do all of these like extremely complex things, stunt, sing, dance, like do this thing, do that, whatever. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Yep, don\u2019t worry about it, guys\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I get home and I\u2019m like, \u2018OK Emma, you seem unable to remember your keys. You seem unable to keep yourself at 30mph in a 30mph speed limit. Like you don\u2019t seem able to do some pretty basic life things\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress and activist, who was made a UN women\u2019s goodwill ambassador in 2014, has starred in a slew of films, including the 2017 Disney live-action remake of Beauty And The Beast, Sofia Coppola-directed movie The Bling Ring in 2014 and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower in 2012.<\/p>\n

She also starred in the Greta Gerwig\u2019s 2019 movie Little Women, in which she played Meg March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has finally broken her silence on her ‘humbling’ driving ban which she received in July. The actress, 35, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the film franchise, was banned from driving for six months in July and had to pay a total of \u00a31,044 after driving her blue Audi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2048650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[380047,330223,349478,380046],"class_list":["post-2048649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-driving-ban","tag-emma-watson","tag-hermione-granger","tag-university-of-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Actress-Emma-Watson-breaks-silence-on-humbling-driving-ban.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}