Margot Robbie once went to great lengths to avoid a babysitter.
The 33-year-old actress has spoken up about faking her own death in order to oppose a new babysitter she didn’t like.
She went all out after a fight with the babysitter, putting ketchup all over her body and lying on the ground next to a kitchen knife.
She had to wait 45 minutes to be discovered, but the babysitter’s response made it all worthwhile as she raced screaming out of the house.
‘We found a new babysitter,’ she said in an interview with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 before to the present actors strike.
‘And I wanted my old babysitter back, Talia, who was like sixteen and I thought she was so cool.
‘And then we got this much older lady in and I was just not happy about it.’
It turned out the Barbie star’s breaking points came when she just really didn’t want to have a bath.
‘She told me to go have a bath and I didn’t want to, and she was very cranky and I thought, “I’m going to show you,”‘ she recalled.
‘And so I got a big kitchen knife and the ketchup and I lay sprawled out naked on the tiles, covered myself in ketchup and put the kitchen knife.
‘And I waited for like 45 minutes for her to find me. But, it was worth the wait.’
Asked if she ran ‘screaming from the house’, Margot said: ‘Oh yeah!’
‘You produced your own death,’ Ryan Gosling quipped, as she admitted: ‘I did!’
She also recalled scaring people as a child and even had an ambulance called after another prank.
‘I also once practiced like a pratfall on the cinema stairs at the shopping center where I’m from,’ she added. ‘People started calling an ambulance so, I guess I was a bit of a dramatic child.’
