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ScarJo on nude photo leak: ‘I thought a friend posted the pics’

While Scarlett Johansson initially laughed off her nude photos being leaked last year, the actress now says that she felt “absolutely violated” and “more vulnerable than I ever had” when snapshots taken for once-husband Ryan Reynolds materialized on the internet.

“It was really terrible; I felt absolutely violated. I wasn’t really aware of how vulnerable all of us are, but I think everybody is just discovering that now,” Johansson tells the British magazine Stylist. “Being hacked made me feel more vulnerable than I ever had previously.”

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Johansson said that the incident initially made her distrustful of those around her.

“I couldn’t figure it out. For a while, I thought it must be someone that I knew who was posting these pictures of me and that was making me incredibly paranoid,” the “Avengers” star explained. “I was looking around at all of my friends, who I have known for 20 years, wondering who the backstabber was. So to find out it wasn’t a friend who hacked in was a relief, oddly.”

Johansson’s comments are a bit of a turnabout from what she initially told Vanity Fair about the incident.

“I know my best angles,” she had joked then, making light of the leak. “[The photos] were sent to my husband. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not like I was shooting a porno.”

Now, Johansson says she is tired of being looked at through a blonde bombshell telescope.

“People seem to think [my part in ‘We Bought a Zoo’] is a very different role for me, that I always play the femme fatale. But I don’t actually think I’ve played that many traditionally sexy characters,” says Johansson. “Maybe it’s because I am curvy and confident about it. I think that no matter who I play, people hone in on that somehow, and reduce it all to something that is merely physical.”

While she doesn’t say it explicitly, Johansson cannot have been too pleased about how the nude photos going public played into her already sexually-charged image.