“I thought I read something about you being with the co-star . . . Meredith Something or other.” He shakes his head with frustration. “That was all fabricated for the sake of the films. For the publicity. The studio owns you when you’re in big-budget films, Nat. They dictate who you’re with, what you do, where you go. I was too young to truly understand what that meant. “Meredith is nice, but she was never my girlfriend, and that’s just another example of how ruthless the paparazzi are.

