Emma Watson Banned From Driving for 6 Months. Here's Why
In a social media post from 2023, Watson explained her decision to break away from Hollywood life. 'Going into my 30s, I was in this moment of real change and [thinking] 'What is going on?',' she told Vogue in a 2023 interview.
'And it was someone else who said to me, 'Oh, this is normal. You're going through your Saturn return.' [I was] like, 'What is that and why has no one warned me?!' I've spoken to so many women and so many of my friends who said, 'Oh, yeah, between 28 and, like, 30, 31, 32, that kind of age, everything shifted.''
She hasn't acted in a film since 2019's Little Women and doesn't seem to have a problem with stepping away.
'Because I'm in a career that moves very quickly, the decision to take time to do these things felt like a very big decision,' she admitted. '[Choosing] to go back and write and study and get behind the camera was terrifying for me because I'd never done it before. I had always been in front of the camera; I'd always been an actor.'
While she's moved away from the public eye, her life is still very much in the headlines. On Wednesday, July 16 news broke that Watson was banned from driving in the United Kingdom for six months because of a relatively minor driving error.
The Harry Potter star received the six-month driving ban nearly a year after being caught going 38 mph in a 30 mph zone in Oxford, England, on July 31, 2024.
According to the BBC, Watson, 35, already had nine points on her driver's license before the incident, and was ordered to pay a fine of £1,044 ($1,396) at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court Wednesday. Watson reportedly didn't attend the court session, but her lawyer, Mark Haslam, told the court that she is a student, adding: "She is in a position to pay the fine."
Watson is currently working on her master's degree in creative writing at Oxford University.Emma Watson Banned From Driving for 6 Months. Here's Why first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 16, 2025
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