Julia Roberts Talks About Blasting The Paparazzi

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.‘”