Robert Pattison’s fame nearly drove him mad

Robert Pattinson’s fan appeal nearly drove the “Twilight” star over the edge earlier this year.

Pattinson said the Twifans slightly odd devotion and the pressure of his fame left him paranoid.

“I was getting really paranoid. But then I realized that if tomorrow I say, ‘OK, I’ve had enough we’re stopping everything,’ it won’t change anything,” he said. “Might as well try to accept it and stay Zen as I have no control over it. It’s not always easy. But whining won’t change anything.”

His first brush with true fame was with a mob of screaming fans at the Cannes Film Festival in February.

He told France’s Premiere magazine: “I was in a restaurant during a break, and when I came out two hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit.

“It was total chaos. But I’m sure that if I’d said to one of those girls, ‘Come on, let’s go have breakfast,’ she would have been totally embarrassed and would never scream my name again.”