Kristen Stewart opened up about falling in love with her "Twilight" costar Robert Pattinson — and the insecurity she still feels surrounding their high-profile relationship.
"It's so weird, like, actually being honest about this. It's been so heavily consumed," she said during a recent appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
"I have this fear that people would assume that maybe I'm, like, you know — it's kind of attention-y, like, 'Oh, cool, you're still, like, pushing that narrative' or whatever," she continued. "It's like, no, I've actually never been allowed to just say what happened. Because I was so self-conscious about seeming like an attention-seeker."
Stern told Stewart that, in his opinion, falling in love on set is "the biggest mistake an actor can make."
"There was nothing I could do," she replied, laughing.
Stewart also shut down the theory that she and Pattinson were dating partly for publicity.
"We were together for years. That was, like, my first, you know," she said.
"Love," Stern interjected.
"Yeah, I mean, like, I was super in love with my high-school boyfriend. Super, super f---ing in love with him," she replied. "But me and Rob were, like, a little older, and it was just like, 'gu-gung.'"
Stewart had only positive things to say about Pattinson, agreeing when Stern called him "a charming guy."
"Yeah, he's the best," she said.
The actors met while filming the first "Twilight" movie, released in 2008, when Stewart was 18 and Pattinson was 22. They likely began dating sometime in 2009 but refused to disclose the details of their relationship.
"When me and Rob were together, we did not have an example to go by," Stewart recently told Harper's Bazaar UK. "So much was taken from us that, in trying to control one aspect, we were just like, 'No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it's ours.'"
The longtime couple split shortly before the final franchise installment, "Breaking Dawn — Part 2," was released in 2012. Stewart had been photographed kissing the married director of her film "Snow White and the Huntsman," Rupert Sanders, who was 41.
Stewart and Pattinson briefly rekindled their romance following the cheating scandal but split for good in 2013.
Stewart demurred when Stern asked whether she would've wanted to marry Pattinson, but did say that "every relationship I've ever been in, I thought that was it."
