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Harry Potter star Emma Watson left fuming after nude photos hack threat

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed she was left “raging” after hackers said they would leak nude photos of her she knew did not exist. The actress was speaking as she urged more men and boys to take a stand for women’s rights and be proud to be feminists. The UN Ambassador for Women said she was targeted by a hoax website after a speech she gave about gender equality. The 24-year-old actress said: “After I gave my speech [at the UN] there was a website threatening to release naked pictures of me.”

I was raging, it made me so angry, I was like, this is why I have to be doing this. If anything, if they were trying to put me off it, it did the opposite.

Emma Watson

Watson was speaking at Facebook’s headquarters in London to mark International Women’s Day where she was promoting her HeForShe campaign, which encourages men and boys to join the fight for equal rights, added: “I knew it was a hoax, I knew the pictures didn’t exist, but I think a lot of people that were close to me knew gender equality was an issue but didn’t think it was that urgent, that it was a thing of the past. And then when they saw that the minute I stood up talking about women’s rights I was immediately threatened.”

Men often think that feminism is a women’s word … but if you stand for gender equality, you are a feminist.

Emma Watson