Here’s a quick rundown of dumb things Megan has said just in the past month: she’s schizophrenic, she used to cut herself but she’s not a cutter, she wants to stab or shoot her boyfriend Brian Austin Green, she’s an empowered feminist, she’s insecure about everything, she’ll never do nudity, she thinks Michael Bay is like Napoleon and Hitler, she thinks all men should be treated like little boys, she prefers kissing girls, and that she looks like a hippo having sex. And those are only the greatest hits. That’s not even the mundane inanities coming out of her.

Throw another dumb log onto to the fire, because Megan wants us to know she’s “fascinated” by the occult. She says: “”I find [the occult] as fascinating as religion. Getting into it is like taking a religion course in college. But I would not say that the occult has guided or influenced me in any sense of the word. I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.” Paging Xenu. This one’s ready for her audit! Megan also said she loved her outfits in Jennifer’s Body, saying “There was something so cheese-tastic about my dresses, so gross and so cheap. It was so how I used to dress when I was in high school because I had no money. It made me feel like that small-town character.” Uh… the fanboys aren’t paying any attention to your costumes, honey.

Anyway, we have entered the final stretch of Megan’s publicity tour, so hopefully she’ll be speaking a lot less in the coming months (fingers crossed). But Megan has one last message for us: Just jokes, y’all! That’s what her interview in People basically boils down to, something akin to “You know all that dumb crap I say all the time – I totes didn’t mean it! Psych!”

After developing a reputation for not only her sex appeal, but making provocative and occasionally outrageous statements in the press, Megan Fox wants you to know something about her: “I’m kidding!”

“Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming,” Fox tells PEOPLE at a fan event and autograph signing for her new film Jennifer’s Body at Hollywood’s Hot Topic store. “They’re not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.”

Fox also insists she’s not just trying to put on a saucy persona in the public eye for her own amusement. “It’s just to get through it, I think, because you want to present and you want to be available to your fans, but you also don’t want to give too much of yourself away, because people take advantage of that,” she says. “It’s learning the balance between giving the information that needs to be given, but then also protecting your privacy and your personal life, the things that you hold dear.”

Her Jennifer’s Body collaborators say they know a different side to the actress than the one in magazines and blogs. “She is incredibly professional,” says screenwriter Diablo Cody. While costar Amanda Seyfried adds: “People will be surprised to know and it will be proven very shortly when people see this movie that she’s a really talented actress.”

And even though she plays a sexually charged and very literal man-eater in the horror-comedy there’s one thing that Fox finds really scary: her power over men.

She said she first discovered that her alluring beauty gave her some sway over males when she was 12. “I think initially it’s sort of overwhelming because little girls are very much exposed to sexuality through the media and the entertainment industry and advertisements,” she says. “So when you realize that you have the same power that you’ve watched women who’ve come before you have, it is frightening and you don’t know what to do with it.”

Even now, well-established as one of Hollywood’s hottest sex symbols at age 23, she’s not at ease with her own sexual power. “I don’t think you ever get comfortable with it,” says Fox. “It’s a strange, sort of almost supernatural thing

During a Q&A session with hundreds of fans at the Hollywood & Highland shopping complex, Fox shared memories of high school that revealed even her budding sex appeal didn’t exactly elevate her status. “I was not ‘the sh-t’ in high school,” she laughs. “I was not an outcast but I didn’t have a ton of friends. I got picked on, and I ate lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the cafeteria.”

“I was a loner, and I think that’s okay,” she says, and while she thinks celebrity life messages are “lame” she did offer a tidbit: “I think it’s perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.”

[From People]

I don’t think Megan should be able to get away with some half-assed “just kidding”. Some of the crap she says is just ridiculous and dumb, and I could easily wash my hands of her. But some of it is truly offensive – and there’s no “just jokes” about it. Here’s what I really think about Megan – she is a very average, boring, intensely insecure young woman with little in the way of personality. She’s a woman who is dumb enough to not have any kind of internal censor, but smart enough to make her “assets” a major calling card, at least in the short term. Long term… well, we’ll see. I don’t think Megan will be this popular in two or three years time. People will get tired of this bullsh-t after a while, I hope.

Here’s Megan Fox at a fan event on 9/16/09. There are also a couple of photos of Diablo Cody thrown in there. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures