But at a press conference today in Los Angeles promoting The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Stewart indicated she’d finally found a way to cope.

“The whole rumor, tabloid stuff, it’s so obviously false,” she said, holding forth solo before a press mob, enthused and energetic and seemingly very happy about the whole thing.

“I became a part of a show, a ridiculous show, with false realism, like a soap opera, but it doesn’t bother me. I don’t take it personally, because I have gotten so much experience with this, it’s gotten easier.”