It’s been a week full of K-Stew controversy, but Kristen has finally given us (me) what we wanted: an apology and an acknowledgement that she was talking out of her ass. It all started when excerpts began to be released from Kristen’s Elle UK cover profile. Kristen was describing the paparazzi experience, and she said – among other comments – “What you don’t see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction… All you see is an actor or a celebrity lit up but a flash. It’s so…The photos are so…I feel like I’m looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time I can’t handle it. I never expected that this would be my life.” I told Kristen to STFU, as did many of you, and many other bloggers and readers out there. Rape crisis directors even got involved, saying that Kristen used “a poor choice of words”. So, long story short, the sh-t hit the fan, and now Kristen has backed down with a statement to People Magazine and an apology:

No sooner did excerpts from July’s British Elle make their way to the Internet on Wednesday than the blogosphere exploded in outrage.

In an offending quote, Twilight saga star Kristen Stewart compared paparazzi photos of herself to images of a woman being raped. Almost immediately, everyone from fans to spokespeople for rape victims’ advocacy organizations were publicly criticizing the actress.

“I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously,” Stewart, currently in Korea to promote the new installment of the Twilight series Eclipse, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “And I’m really sorry about my choice of words.”

Stewart, 20, is not known as one to mince words. “I’ve made stupid remarks before, and I’ve always reasoned: ‘Whatever. They can think what they want,’ ” she says.

But in this instance, the Los Angeles-born actress feels compelled to address the situation. ” ‘Violated’ definitely would have been a better way of expressing the thought,” she notes.

In fact, the issue of violence against women is one that has been close to Stewart since playing a victim of rape in the 2004 film Speak. She has done public service announcements for the advocacy group RAINN and for SOC.

The irony of the situation in which Stewart now finds herself is not lost on the actress.

“People thinking that I’m insensitive about this subject rips my guts out. I made a big mistake.”

[From People]

Okay, I’m personally calling off my fatwa against her – not that I was even totally up in arms, I was more disappointed that a young woman who I had thought was intelligent and reasonable made such a dumb Megan Fox-esque move. I wanted her to acknowledge that she shouldn’t have used those words, and I wanted her to apologize, and she did both. She’s back in my good graces (not that it matters to her).

Header: Kristen’s Elle UK cover. Also, Kristen Stewart on March 17, 2010. Credit: WENN.