Chloë Grace Moretz on What She Hopes Fans Took Away From Her Addressing 'Family Guy' Meme (Exclusive)

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Chloë Grace Moretz is opening up about what she hopes fans take away from her recently addressing the horrific meme that was a total «headf**k,» and she can sum it up with just two words — more compassion.While walking the red carpet for Prime Video's  premiere at the famed Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night, the 25-year-old actress told ET she hopes there's more compassion in this world after revealing the impact the meme had on her life for the better part of a year.Last month, Moretz, for the first time, told  that she «basically became a recluse» after she was bombarded with the meme born out of a photo of her walking into a hotel with a pizza box in her hand.

That photo, she said, «got manipulated into a character from with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.»«Everyone was making fun of my body and I brought it up with someone and they were like, 'Oh, shut the f**k up, it's funny.' And I just remember sitting there and thinking, my body is being used as a joke and it's something I can't change about who I am, and it is being posted all over Instagram,» she recalled to the outlet. «It was something so benign as walking into a hotel with leftovers.

And to this day, when I see that meme, it's something very hard for me to overcome.»A post shared by Hunger Magazine (@hungermagazine)Just weeks after opening up about the ordeal that made her «severely anxious» and «hyperventilate» whenever she was in the presence of photographers, Moretz says she hopes there was a lesson to be learned after being vulnerable, and expressing how the meme makes her feel. «I think the big thing is that compassion is a really key thing in humanity and just being kind with.