Things got a little overheated at Sunday’s premiere of Robsessed, the new documentary about Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson and his superfans, when someone was hospitalised before the screening even began. The whole thing apparently started over a scrap between two girls about a poster.
The injured fan was one of 300 competition winners who had won tickets to the world fan premiere of the new DVD Robsessed (which is out this week), with free posters being distributed at the Prince Charles Cinema in London’s Leicester square, where the event took place.
“A massive fight broke out between two girls over the last poster” said Precious Acabousi, 19 from Surrey, who was at the premiere. “There was a lot of pushing and shoving, everyone was crowding around them”
“I heard gasps as one of the girls fell on the floor, she was in terrible pain and had twisted her arm – she was screaming for help. The poster had been ripped in two.”
The fan, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was driven to hospital immediately and missed the screening.
“The Robert Pattinson fans, also known as the Robesessed, are the most hardcore of fanatics” said a spokesman for the DVD, “we had plenty of posters printed, but obviously some people picked up more than others, and so the fight broke out.”
It would seem then that the documentary has hit on something and that these R-Patz fans really are obsessed to an unhealthy extent (assuming this isn’t just a bit of a PR stunt). To all other Robert Pattinson fans, we’d just like to suggest you calm down, as New Moon is out on Friday, and so if you wait until then you can watch him being Edward Cullen all you want to, without having to inflict bodily harm on others just to be close to his image.
Oh, and by the way, the image of the blood covered women isn’t the people who got into a fight, they’re other premiere attendees, who we presume are pretending to be vampires, like Edward in Twilight.