The 34-year-old, who shot to super stardom in 2009 after featuring in James Cameron's sci-fi epic, said the media made too much of the quotes she gave and it really was not as bad, reported Daily Star.
"That was completely blown out of proportion. That was so exaggerated and so ridiculous. It's no different than what a child does after you've had a birthday party for a child. The child has been so stimulated by everybody, in every direction, consistently, you feel depleted.
After the completion of the film, Saldana had said she has been left mentally exhausted and had suffered an emotional breakdown.
"The year after Avatar was just emotionally overwhelming. I was traveling all over the world, waking up in different time zones. Your body gets exhausted, and by the end of the year I just collapsed...
"I was sitting in my hotel room, and I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't stay awake. I must have slept for an entire month. It took me the rest of the year, even as I was working and shooting 'Colombiana', to pick myself up. Thank God my family was there," she had said.
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