Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour ago"I Was Too Dangerous To Touch": Jodie Foster's Comments About Why She Thinks She Wasn't Sexually Abused As A Child Star Have Seriously Divided People"Honestly kudos to her support system for making her feel this in control and autonomous. She got lucky."by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Jodie Foster was just three years old when she kick-started her acting career by starring in a Coppertone commercial back in the '60s, and she has pretty much been working nonstop ever since. Abc Photo Archives / Getty Images Jodie's first credited TV appearance was in an episode of Mayberry R.F.D. back in 1968, when she was 5 years old, and her feature film debut came the following year, at age 6. She continued to work throughout her childhood with appearances in TV shows like My Three Sons and Paper Moon while also starring in her fair share of movies, like the 1973 adaptation of Tom Sawyer, when she was 10. CBS / Via youtube.com However, it was 1976 that really saw Jodie thrive, with the child star leading not one but three now-infamous movies: Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, and the original Freaky Friday. Jodie was just 13 years old at the time, and she even hosted Saturday Night Live that same year, remaining the show's youngest ever host until 1982, when Drew Barrymore broke her record at age 7. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Since then, Jodie has arguably become best known for her Oscar-winning performances in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, with the now-63-year-old star widely regarded as one of the most esteemed actors in Hollywood. Bob Riha Jr / Getty Images Despite this, Jodie recently admitted that she never would have chosen acting for herself, branding it a "cruel job" that she was effectively forced into. Speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival, per Variety, Jodie said: "I would never have chosen to be an actor, I don't have the personality of an actor. I'm not somebody that wants to dance on a table and, you know, sing songs for people." Marc Piasecki / Getty Images "It's actually just a cruel job that was chosen for me as a young person that I don't remember starting," she added. "So right there, it makes my work a little bit different because I am not interested in acting just for the sake of acting. If I was on a desert island, I think probably the last thing I would ever do is act. So I was just trying to survive.""I don't know why anyone would want to be an actor now, if they knew that in order to be excellent, they would have to contend with being robbed of their life in a way," Jodie then confessed. "I don't know how you make sense of that except to have what my mom helped me do, which is to have this very firm delineation between your private life and your public life."Jodie also said that she is concerned for "the young child actors of this era," and privately reaches out to them. She shared: "I want to take care of them because I know how dangerous it is." And now, in a new interview with the NPR podcast Fresh Air, Jodie has reflected on the fact that she was "saved" from Hollywood sexual abuse despite being in the industry from such a young age - and the star's theory as to why she was spared has divided people online. Aurore Marechal / Getty Images Speaking on the podcast, Jodie began: "I've really had to examine that, like, how did I get saved? There were microaggressions, of course. Anybody who's in the workplace has had misogynist microaggressions. That's just a part of being a woman, right? But what kept me from having those bad experiences, those terrible experiences?" Archive Photos / Getty Images "What I came to believe is that I had a certain amount of power by the time I was, like, 12," she added, before referencing the 1977 Oscar nomination she received for Taxi Driver at age 14. "So, by the time I had my first Oscar nomination, I was part of a different category of people that had power, and I was too dangerous to touch. I could've ruined people's careers, or I could've called 'Uncle,' so I wasn't on the block." Ron Galella / Getty Images "It also might be just my personality, that I am a head-first person and I approach the world in a head-first way," Jodie continued to theorize. "It's very difficult to emotionally manipulate me because I don't operate with my emotions on the surface. Predators use whatever they can in order to manipulate and get people to do what they want them to do. And that's much easier when the person is younger, when the person is weaker, when a person has no power. That's precisely what predatory behavior is about: using power in order to diminish people, in order to dominate them." Sophia Morizet / Getty Images Reacting to Jodie's quotes on a Reddit forum, people were torn over what the star had said - with many pointing out that being abused isn't necessarily reflective of a lack of power as they argued that the star was simply "lucky." Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images "Love her but