19 Celebs Who Called Out Or Set Boundaries With Fans

It’s exciting to see one of your favorite celebs IRL, but sometimes, fans act a little too overfamiliar or entitled.

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In a 2024 TikTok video addressing her fans, Chappell Roan said, “I need you to answer questions. Just answer my questions for a second. If you saw a random woman on the street, would you yell at her out a car window? Would you harass her in public? Would you go up to a random lady and say, ‘Can I get a photo with you?’ And she’s like, ‘No, what the fuck?’ And then you get mad at this random lady? Would you be offended if she says no to your time because she has her own time?”

In a follow-up TikTok, she said, “I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are famous, or a little famous, whatever. I don’t care that it’s normal. I don’t care that this crazy type of behavior comes along with the job, the career field I’ve chosen. That does not make it okay. That doesn’t make it normal. Doesn’t mean I want it. Doesn’t mean that I like it. I don’t want whatever the fuck you think you’re supposed to be entitled to whenever you see a celebrity.”

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In 2024, Tyler, the Creator told Mavericks that some “weirdo” fans “get on [his] fucking nerves.” He said, “The internet’s crazy, these kids hack everything..they wanna know who your sister is, what you ate for dinner…mind your fucking business. Go the fuck outside and listen to the damn art or the music. Because of the internet, people don’t know personal boundaries anymore, and it’s normalized…[but] it’s like ‘we don’t know each other.'”

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In a 2016 Instagram post, Justin Bieber wrote, “If you happen to see me out somewhere know that I’m not gonna take a picture I’m done taking pictures. It has gotten to the point that people won’t even say hi to me or recognize me as a human, I feel like a zoo animal, and I wanna be able to keep my sanity.”

Then, in a 2020 Instagram Story post, Justin called out people who congregated outside his home, writing, “How do you convince yourself it’s not completely inappropriate and disrespectful to wait outside my home to gawk, stare and take pictures as I walk into my apartment.”

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In a fan-captured TikTok video from a 2024 performance, Reneé Rapp seemingly shut down a fan’s lewd sign, saying, “No, my tits are staying in my shirt.”

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In 2023, Doja Cat reportedly declined a fan’s request to tell her fans she loved them on Threads, writing, “i don’t though cuz i don’t even know yall.”

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In a resurfaced video clip of Anne Hathaway leaving a Valentino fashion show in 2022, she told a group of fans, “I cannot take photos with everyone as there’s too many of you, but I will stand here and wave if you would like to take a photo.”

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In 2023, Heartstopper actor Joe Locke told Teen Vogue that his mom had to make new social media accounts because of fans messaging her or attempting to find her location. He also said some fans called his grandmother.

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Onstage at The Eras Tour in Buenos Aires in 2023, Taylor Swift told the audience, “And just because communication means having gentle, healthy boundaries — it really freaks me out when stuff gets thrown on the stage because if it’s on the stage then a dancer can trip on it.”

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In 2022, Keke Palmer tweeted, “No means no, even when it doesn’t pertain to sex. I was at the bar the other day and this girl asked me three times for a picture and I told her three times nicely that I did not want take one with her. She still preceded to film me against my will..”

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In a viral video from 2023, Bad Bunny tossed a fan’s phone after they tried to take a selfie with him. In a since-deleted tweet (translated from Spanish via the LA Times), he said, “The person who comes up to me to greet me, tell me something or just meet me will always receive my attention and respect.”

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In 2017, Emma Watson told Vanity Fair that she started declining fans’ requests for selfies out in public. She explained, “For me, it’s the difference between being able to have a life and not. If someone takes a photograph of me and posts it, within two seconds they’ve created a marker of exactly where I am within 10 meters. They can see what I’m wearing and who I’m with. I just can’t give that tracking data.”

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On a 2019 episode of the Table Manners podcast, Emilia Clarke said that, while she was having a panic attack in the airport, a fan approached her and asked for a selfie. Because of that interaction, she decided that, when fans asked for a selfie, she’d offer to sign something instead.

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After a fan posted a video sneaking into her Here Lies Love Broadway dressing room, Lea Salonga stopped meeting guests in her dressing room for security reasons. In since-deleted tweets, she said, “The money you pay for a theatre/concert ticket does not mean all-access. You pay for that performer’s art, and that’s where it stops. I gotta say, the folks at the stage door have been so incredibly kind, which only makes us (well, me) enthusiastic to say hello and spend the time to talk to them.”

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In a series of since-deleted tweets from 2022, Mitski wrote, “I wanted to speak with you about phones at shows. They’re part of our reality, I have mine on me all the time, and I’m not against taking photos at shows (though please no flash lol). But sometimes when I see people filming entire songs or whole sets, it makes me feel as though we are not here together. This goes for both when I’m on stage, and when I’m an audience member at shows.”

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In 2020, Waterparks singer Awsten Knight told Louder Sound that fans who make fun of him on social media “forget we don’t actually know each other.” He continued, “I feel like it’s hard for people to differentiate between social media and the actual reality. So when a shitload of people are like, ‘Dumb shit crackhead!’ every day, it’s like, oh god.”

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In a 2020 Instagram Story post, Cole Sprouse wrote, “I tolerate a lot of rumors and slander from people online claiming to be my fans. Fans who feel entitled to my privacy because I never indulge them. But attacking my friends, baseless accusations, leaking my address, and sending death threats are all qualities of insanity and fanaticism. Choose humanity, stop being [clowns].”

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In a since-deleted 2016 Instagram post, Amy Schumer wrote, “This guy in front of his family just ran up next to me scared the s–t out of me. Put a camera in my face. I asked him to stop and he said ‘no it’s America and we paid for you.’ This was in front of his daughter. I was saying stop and no. Great message to your kid. Yes legally you are allowed to take a picture of me. But I was asking you to stop and saying no. I will not take [a] picture with people anymore and it’s because of this dude in Greenville.”

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In a since-deleted 2017 tweet, Lili Reinhart wrote, “To the two girls who are repeatedly photographing me as I’m eating my lunch… I see you. You aren’t slick…. that’s f***ing rude. ?????”

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And finally, in a 2017 Variety’s Actors on Actors conversation with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Lawrence said, “Once I enter a public space, I become incredibly rude. I become a huge asshole. That’s my only way of defending myself.”