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8 problems only famous people face

Ryan Phillippe definitely isn't dating Katy Perry

But he's got helicopters flying over his house looking for her.

Ryan Phillippe isn't new to the fame game but he's still shocked at what comes with being a Hollywood celebrity.

He's recently been linked with , something he denies very strongly.

It's not something a lot people will have much experience of, but being a celebrity comes with a whole world of problems most of us will never understand.

Here's six more pressures of fame that we doubt will ever trouble most of our lives.

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus is happily settled with Liam Hemsworth (at last!) but she struggled to make her love life work because her fame meant every partner became a bit of a celebrity too.

"If you’re trying to have a normal date and then you’re getting flashed and [in the tabloids] it’s like 'Mystery Man," she told Elle magazine in 2014.

She says the attention she got made her a bit of a recluse.

"So it kind of turned me into a hermit, which my dad is - like, borderline socially unacceptable - and I never want to become like that."

Ariana Grande

Being famous may seem fun, with invites to parties and red carpet events, but Ariana Grande can't stand them.

She first tweeted about her 'terror' at walking the red carpet in 2012.

In 2014 she was reportedly seen upset on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards after seeing negative comments about her hair on Twitter.

She had previously revealed to fans on Twitter that years of bleaching and dying had left her hair seriously damaged.

"PLEASE gimme a break about the hair (or just don’t look at me lol)," she wrote on Instagram.

"IT’S JUST HAIR AFTER ALL. There are way way way more important things."

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber has a tricky relationship with fans and isn't afraid to tell them to back off when they cross the line and invade his privacy.

In 2016 he told fans on Instagram that he would no longer pose for photos with fans because their requests made him feel like a "zoo animal."

George Clooney

You might think life is pretty sweet for Hollywood A-listers like George Clooney, but for all his fame and fortune, all he really wants is to go for a walk in the park.

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George Clooney

"What’s the guy in the big house on the hill got to complain about?" He told Esquire magazine in 2014.

"But the truth is, the big house on a hill is isolating. There’s no other way to say it. There are restrictions to this kind of fame.

"I haven’t walked in Central Park for 15 years. I’d like to, you know?"

Selena Gomez

Like Miley, Selena Gomez struggled making romance work (at least, she did before getting together with The Weeknd).

She even said she believed it was a 'dumb' idea for guys to want to date her.

"I think people would think it's kind of dumb [to date me]," she told Vogue Australia in 2016.

"Nobody would want to throw themselves into that situation where it was so heightened publicly, like, why would they?"

"[I'd like a] low-key actor, writer or producer but those kind of guys are terrified of me!"

She didn't get her wish. She got one of the coolest men in music instead.

Lorde

There are probably worse things in life than having a helicopter over your house looking for Katy Perry, some celebs have really struggled being famous.

Lorde is just 20 years old but has already said that she hates the 'lecherous' way she is treated by some people in the music industry.

"I understand that people of note are supposedly fair game for everyone to photograph and film but that doesn’t make it acceptable," she wrote on Twitter (which she has since deleted) after she and her family were harrassed by photographers at an airport.

"I’m beginning to get used to my image as a public commodity, and the fact that I’m getting used to it frightens me.

"There is a difference between attn from fans, which i love, and the constant, often lecherous gaze that i’m subjected to in this industry."

Megan Fox

Megan Fox may have saved the world several times in the Transformers movies, but that hasn't made dealing with global fame any easier.

You're being bullied by millions of people constantly
Megan Fox

She has compared her experiences to bullying, but on a huge scale.

"What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale," she told Esquire in 2013.

"You're being bullied by millions of people constantly."