Jodie Foster Pens Open Letter to Kristen Stewart

Jodie Foster Pens Open Letter to Kristen Stewart

Jodie Foster has penned a blog for The Daily Beast reassuring her former co-star Kristen Stewart that “the public horrors of today eventually blow over.”

Foster played the Twilight starlet’s onscreen mom in the 2001 thriller Panic Room. She think it’s important for her friend to stay strong in the wake of the media scrutiny surrounding her affair with married director Rupert Sanders. What Stewart now describes as a “momentary indiscretion” as seemingly torpedoed her romance with Twilight love interest Robert Pattinson.
But Jodie wants Kristen to remember that “this too shall pass.”
Foster knows all too well the pressure of growing up in the public eye, having been a child star herself.
Here’s the public message she sent Kristen in the wake of the 22-year-old much-publicized cheating scandal:

“My mother had a saying that she doled out after every small injustice, every heartbreak, every moment of abject suffering: ‘This too shall pass.’ God, I hated that phrase. It always seemed so banal and out of touch, like she was telling me my pain was irrelevant. Now it just seems quaint, but oddly true…Eventually this all passes.”

She added:

“The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. You trust less. You calculate your steps. You survive. Hopefully in the process you don’t lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate FU and — finally — the most beautiful survival tool of all.
Don’t let them take that away from you.”

Jodie, 49, noted that if the pressure on stars (think social media and the paparazzi) had been as intense when she was Kristen’s age, she likely would have “quit before I started.”

“Would I drown myself in drugs, sex, and parties? Would I be lost?” she questioned.