Rob Pattinson says he was beaten up as a kid... The poor baby! And, apparently, when he started acting it just got worse.

"I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, but I always thought the assaults were unprovoked.It was after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor, or how I thought an actor was supposed to be, and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me."

And it hasn't stopped!

He says:  "We had this big scene, where I punch out some guys. It went fine and nobody was really hurt at all. But, at the end, I was like doing this thing where I was hitting myself in the arm, sort of pumping myself up."

We’re starting to realise that Rob’s got more than his fair share of issues...

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