Emma Watson Reveals She Received Intimate Photo Leak Threat Within Hours Of Un Speech

The Harry Potter series star, Emma Watson, 24 was threatened by internet trolls as soon as she addressed the UN headquarters in New York in September to launch the HeForShe campaign, aimed at raising awareness about sexism and violence against women. Readers will remember that the threat against Emma came just days within the leaking of ‘iCloud hacks,’ images of the Hollywood celebrities like Hunger Games star, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and countless others. Emma spoke up for the first time about the threat when speaking at a Q & A session about gender equality hosted at Facebook’s HQ in London on Womens Day, yesterday. Emma said that she “knew it was a hoax” because such pictures “didn’t exist” a statement she had issued in August itself when the hackers were leaking the stolen images every weekend. Watson’s speech to the United Nations attracted widespread praise for drawing attention to gender equality, with the speech viewed nearly 10 million times on YouTube. You can watch her entire gender equality speech below “We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.”