Julia Roberts Talks About Blasting The Paparazzi

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

Julia Roberts made headlines this week when she confronted a paparazzo she thought was endangering children.

Without a trace of her trademark smile, Julia spoke out about her confrontation with the paparazzi, in an interview on Friday with Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson.

“I think there needs to be some kind of line drawn in the sand with everybody as grown-up people who can fight our own fights,” Julia said. “I don’t think the magazines, the newspapers should show celebrities’ children.”

Fiercely protective of her children, the mother of three confronted a photographer who filmed her as she drove near a school.

“Your kids weren’t in the car,” Shaun noted. “But you were chasing him down the street and finally got him to pull over.”

Footage of the incident showed Julia chasing after the paparazzo in her car. She eventually got the car of the photographer to pull over and turn off their cameras, saying, “Turn it of . . .. I want to talk to you about the fact that you’re at a school where children go. Turn it off!”

So what happened when the camera was off?

“I just told him a school is not a place for a grown man to be crawling around trying to take pictures,” she told Access. “Because, it’s not where you come to take pictures of me. And he’s looking like a pedophile, so somebody is going to call the police on him and land him in jail. If you want to take a picture of a person, then go to an adult place. Go to the coffee shop, go to the grocery store, go to the restaurant. Don’t stake out someone’s children’s church, school or playground environment.”

Julia isn’t the first celebrity to confront the paparazzi lately. A little over a week ago, her pal George Clooney had his own incident when the paparazzi allegedly committed driving offenses while chasing down the “Ocean’s Thirteen” actor as he drove his girlfriend on his motorbike.

“What they’re doing is illegal, it’s high-speed chases and they’re competing with each other,” Clooney told reporters. “They’re not trying to catch me doing something stupid; they’re trying to create me doing something stupid. You don’t get to break all these laws and then say, ‘I’m just doing my job.‘”

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