It’s not always easy being a famous teen. Irish actress Saoirse Ronan quit school because of unkind treatment, not just from fellow students but, surprisingly,  from grown ups as well.

Ronan, 15, who received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in Atonement and who currently stars in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, says the staff and students at Kilkenny College, a Protestant boarding school, gave her a “hard time” about her fame. And so she left.

“The reason was teachers giving me a hard time. Teachers and students.” She explained in an interview with The Guardian. “Some of the students were, you know, mean. But I only stayed a while. It wasn’t really working out. You know, the school is a good school and the people who go there are good people. But when your schoolmates recognise you before they’ve met you, and the teachers do, too, it can make things very awkward and difficult. It’s a shame.”

Ronan is now home schooled but unwanted attention isn’t limited to the classroom and she finds herself having to cope with that downside of celebrity on a regular basis.

“I find that hard to deal with, though I don’t have it as bad as the Twilight people or the Harry Potter kids. But it is weird, especially after doing a film like this one. If I notice that a guy is looking at me — a man — I think, ‘Is this a really weird guy staring at me, or does he just recognise me from a film?’”