'They had to usher me away': Emily Blunt recalls the embarrassing moment she laughed in Barack Obama's face

By Emily Sheridan
PUBLISHED: 00:37, 4 April 2012 | UPDATED: 00:37, 4 April 2012

She's one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses and has worked alongside a host of A-list stars.
But Emily Blunt admitted she couldn't keep her cool when introduced to U.S. President Barack Obama.
In a new interview with Elle UK magazine, the Devil Wears Prada star revealed she got so flustered, she ended up bursting into hysterical laughter.


Attending the Kennedy Center honours with her husband John Krasinski in Washington D.C. last December, the 29-year-old jumped at the chance to meet the Premier.
She tells the May issue of Elle: 'I was so starstruck... we were at the White House having cocktails and this woman said, "Would you like to meet President Obama?"
'They introduced me and then he turned to me and went, "Oh. Oh. You are a wonderful actress."


'And I laughed, screechingly and hysterically, I couldn’t stop. They had to usher me away. I fell apart. I don’t know what happened to me. He looked nine-feet tall. I think my eyes rolled back in my head.
'I gave Michelle a hug and she had skin like silk.'



While Blunt rarely gets a foot wrong on the red carpet, the London-born star admitted she doesn't pay much attention to style crtics.
She explained: 'I like to mix it up, but I don’t care what people say about what I’m wearing on the red carpet, because there’s inevitably going to be someone who hates it, even if you wear something that a lot of people like. I don’t care.
'I know what I like and what I feel good in and I like to take a few risks. They’re not huge strides.'
See Emily Blunt’s full photo shoot and interview in the May issue of ELLE, on sale Wednesday 4th April 2012.


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