Emma Stone couldn’t stop thinking about her crush on Leonardo DiCaprio when she won Oscar: ‘He was the love of my life’

Emma Stone has opened up about the surprising thoughts running through her head when Leonardo DiCaprio handed her the best actress Oscar in 2017.

The actress landed the gong for her role in La La Land and she vividly remains being completely overwhelmed by the fact her childhood crush had been the man to hand over her trophy.

Reminiscing on the special moment during her recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, she gushed: ‘Leonardo DiCaprio. That was what was going through my mind cos it was him. And I was like, I’d seen Titanic seven and a half times in theatres.

‘He was the love of my life. I had a picture of him in my bedroom that was signed, that I had gotten for my birthday when I was, like, 12 years old and I was walking to Leo and I was like, this is officially the most surreal moment of my life.’

The 32-year-old continued: ‘I could not believe it. I think he probably thinks I’m, like, a little weird, cos whenever I see him, I’m kind of like, “Hey, how’s it going?” You know, just in little moments either at the same event or something.

‘He’s very sweet though. But that was truly, that was what was the craziest experience, was the fact that it was him.’

The new mom, who recently welcomed her first child with husband Dave McCary, wasn’t done there as she added: ‘He’s very tall. And he’s so lovely, but you know, it’s kind of unfair because it’s something that I don’t really believe in that much.

‘The idea that you turn real people into this other idea that’s always been so, so odd to me in my own experience. Like, it just feels so weird. So I am doing that to him and that’s not really fair because he’s a real person and I’m sitting there going “Hi, Leo.”

The Crazy Stupid Love actress continued: ‘I’m like, I’m still 12 years old. But I think there’s something about that moment. The fact that it, I guess it was really, even more than that. It was the fact that it was someone that I had grown up watching and that I admired so much.

‘And as an actor, I think he’s fantastic. And I’d watched him in everything. And then that moment where it’s, like, kind of such a surreal moment as an actor anyway. So it just compounded it. It still feels like it didn’t really occur because it was him there.’

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