Robert Pattinson recalls 'stealing porn magazines and selling them at school'

In an interview with Sirius XM's The Howard Stern Show, the British actor shared his naughty past.

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Robert Pattinson was expelled from school for stealing pornographic magazines and selling them at school REUTERSRo

Twilight fans might get shocked to hear this! Robert Pattinson revealed that he was expelled from school for stealing pornographic magazines and selling them at school.

During an interview with Sirius XM's The Howard Stern Show, the British actor shared his naughty past. He said: "I've never actually said this before. I was stealing porno magazines and selling them at school. No one knew at all what to do with them, though... I'd sell them for a lot of money."

"I used to go in and take, like, one or two, and then put them in my bag. I was in my school uniform when I was doing it, and it was kind of risky. At the end, I got so cocky that I would take the entire rack," he added.

"I remember the guy who worked in the store shouting, like, 'Hey!' and then my two friends ran off, and I turned around, like, 'What?' I walked back up to him. I hadn't zipped up my bag," he explained. "This guy is pulling out all these porno magazines -- and it was when porn used to have, like, VHS tapes in the plastic sheet with it -- and he's pulling all these things out, and I was sitting there humiliated with all the old people looking at me disgusted."

"Basically, a couple of days later, everything fell down. Basically every single one of my friends snitched on me, literally, across the board," he recalled.

Adding on, Pattinson shared that he was almost fired from Twilight for being too serious. He said: "I was very serious. I thought at the time – I was 21 – if you were going into a relationship with someone, the way to make it really intense was if you could barely talk to each other, you could barely touch each other, incredibly serious all the time."

"Everyone was like, 'No, it should be happy and having fun! That's what people want!' ...Now the whole series is known as a brooding thing. But I remember the producers giving me a copy of the book, and every single instance where my character smiled, they'd highlighted. I got a different color highlighter and highlighted all the times he frowned."

"I came back after lunch and I was like 'Hi! Look at me, I wanna keep my job!'" he joked. "I was probably going a little too miserable, so some kind of compromise was OK."