'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Keira Knightley says she was 'taken down publicly,' traumatized after film

It is simply a unusual improvement - communal successful Hollywood - erstwhile the happening that brings you the astir opportunities simultaneously rips you to shreds.

Keira Knightley knows this each excessively well. 

After suffering done the perils of young stardom compounded by the pressures of being successful a franchise arsenic fashionable arsenic "Pirates of the Caribbean," the English actress, months distant from turning 40, is reflecting connected however she handled it all.

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Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp successful a inactive from the archetypal "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. (Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo)

"It’s a comic happening erstwhile you person thing that was making and breaking you astatine the aforesaid time," Knightley told The Times of the "Pirates" franchise. "I was seen arsenic s--- due to the fact that of them, and yet, due to the fact that they did truthful well, I was fixed the accidental to bash the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for." 

Keira Knightley attended the Academy Awards successful 2006 arsenic a nominated actress. (Ian West - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

In 2005, Knightley, who was 20 astatine the time, received her archetypal Oscar information for Best Actress. She was nominated for her relation of Elizabeth Bennet successful "Pride and Prejudice." She was besides nominated for Best Supporting Actress successful 2014 for her portrayal of Joan Clarke successful "The Imitation Game."

"They were the astir palmy films I’ll ever beryllium a portion of, and they were the crushed that I was taken down publicly," she continued of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which besides starred Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. "So they’re a precise confused spot successful my head." 

"I was seen arsenic s--- due to the fact that of them, and yet, due to the fact that they did truthful well, I was fixed the accidental to bash the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for." 

Johnny Depp, left, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom fronted the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, starting with "The Curse of the Black Pearl" successful 2003. (Eric Charbonneau/WireImage for Disney Pictures/Getty Images)

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As a result, Knightley said she would not enactment connected a franchised task again. "The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you person nary power implicit wherever you’re filming, however agelong you’re filming, what you’re filming."

In conjunction with her movie success, determination was changeless disapproval of her quality and wide persona. Sought aft by paparazzi since she was a teen – she began acting arsenic a kid and was lone 17 erstwhile she began starring successful the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films – Knightley shared successful 2018 that erstwhile she was 22, she suffered a intelligence breakdown and had been diagnosed with post-traumatic accent disorder.

"In that classical trauma mode I don’t retrieve it," she admitted of that time. "There’s been a implicit delete, and past immoderate things volition travel up, and I’ll abruptly person a precise bodily representation of it because, ultimately, it’s nationalist shaming, isn’t it? It’s evidently portion of my psyche, fixed however young I was erstwhile it happened. I’ve been made astir it."

Keira Knightley shown attending the satellite premiere of "Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl" successful 2003. (SGranitz/WireImage/Getty Images)

Knightley was peculiarly scrutinized astir her weight, accused of battling an eating disorder.

"I knew I wasn’t. I knew I was eating," she said of the rumors. At the time, different young starlets were dealing with similar, but also, distinctly antithetic circumstances. "I retrieve viscerally 1 of the Olsen twins had anorexia, and she went into a clinic," Knightley said, referencing Mary-Kate Olsen, who received attraction soon aft graduating from precocious schoolhouse successful 2004.

"In that classical trauma mode I don’t retrieve it."

Keira Knightley attended the European premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," successful London. (Ian West - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

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"I retrieve being asked astir it connected a property tour, similar it was a joke. She was meant to beryllium shamed for seeking assistance for anorexia. I retrieve sitting determination conscionable being like, ‘Wow, this is wild.’ Can you imagine?…That made maine truly emotional. That’s not adjacent astir me, it’s astir her. I inactive can’t carnivore it."

She besides was acutely alert of what the media wanted from her: a collapse.

"I 100% recognized and saw people’s careers being shattered due to the fact that they were photographed coming retired of clubs. The wealth connected my caput astatine that point, if you’d got a representation of maine drunk, was truthful huge," she remembered. "I wasn’t going to springiness the [paparazzi] the restitution of taking that away, truthful I was unbelievably straight."

Keira Knightley stuns connected the carpet successful March 2023. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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Now, arsenic a joined parent to two young girls, Knightley feels arsenic though she has overmuch much power implicit her ain narrative.

"I support being offered things astir children dying oregon astir mothers dying. Can’t bash it," she shared. "I’ve been truly amazed successful the past fewer years astir what I’ve said nary to. I’ve wanted it to beryllium much axenic amusement and possibly that’s due to the fact that I’ve needed that."