Emma Watson breaks silence after her car was towed in Stratford-upon-Avon

Emma Watson joked about having her car towed in Stratford-upon-Avon earlier this week.

The 33-year-old Harry Potter star’s £30,000 Audi S3 was reportedly towed and impounded by police on Tuesday (February 6) evening after being parked “illegally” for hours in the West Midlands city.

“Still looking for a parking space in Stratford upon Avon,” Watson shared on Twitter/X on Thursday, along with a crying laughing face emoji.Merchant of Venice (very) good if you can still get tickets.

By tagging the Royal Shakespeare Company, the tweet appears to confirm that Watson was watching The Merchant of Venice 1936 at the Swan Theatre while his car allegedly “trapped” other vehicles in a car park for almost four hours.

“The car had parked in front of our gate, which is a no-parking zone,” the owner of Red Hot Mammas pizzeria told Daily Mail.

“Three and a half hours spent looking for the driver was the last thing I needed after working 12 hours.”

In photographs published by the tabloid, the Harry Potter star was seen speaking to an officer and a tow truck driver as she attempted to free her car on Tuesday evening (February 6).

According to reports and eyewitnesses who spoke with The sunWatson was given some paperwork before his car was finally impounded.

“Emma was very upset because her car was being towed. She ran over and yelled, ‘Hey, that’s my car!’ She argued with the truck driver, but he wouldn’t listen,” one person said. “Emma was with her mother who watched the whole thing on the street.”

Warwickshire Police have confirmed “a report of a blue Audi S3 parked across a driveway and blocking two cars on the High Street near the junction with Sheep Street in Stratford”.

“The report was made at 9:42 p.m. and the car was seized and taken away at 10:21 p.m.,” they added. “No crime was recorded.”

Watson’s representatives did not respond to a request for comment. The IndependentRequest for comment from.

The incident comes just months after Watson was seen driving her car with duct tape covering the front area just below the passenger side headlight.

In recent years, the The Perks of Being a Wallflower The actress has taken a step back from her acting career, explaining that it has allowed her to have more “autonomy.”

“I’m so glad I let things be messy for a minute and really allowed myself to not know (what’s next), because knowing that I’ve gotten to this point, I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” she said. Vogue in December.

Watson revealed in May that she was returning to the University of Oxford, where she studied as a visiting student from 2011 to 2012. She has enrolled on an MA course in creative writing, which begins in September 2023.