{"id":250047,"date":"2026-07-04T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/how-did-bono-help-penelope-cruz-get-over-her-fear-of-driving\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:45:11","slug":"how-did-bono-help-penelope-cruz-get-over-her-fear-of-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/how-did-bono-help-penelope-cruz-get-over-her-fear-of-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Bono help Penelope Cruz get over her fear of driving?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Penelope Cruz<\/a> is finally \u201cthinking about\u201d getting her driver’s licence at the age of 52.<\/p>\n

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How did Bono help Penelope Cruz get over her fear of driving?<\/p>\n

The Invite actress has a \u201cvery deep fear of driving\u201d since her sister was hit by a car when she was a child but when U2\u2019s Bono<\/a> bought her a car for her birthday in April, she started considering learning to drive.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Hot Ones, Penelope explained: \u201cMy friend Bono<\/a> gave me a car for my last birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gave me a car and I think that is like the ultimate push to do it. After you get a car from Bono<\/a>, you don’t get your license? How crazy is that? So now I’m thinking about it again, but it’s such a deep fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Penelope revealed that her fear of driving is so great, following her sister Monica\u2019s accident, that she hates even getting in to cars.<\/p>\n

\nShe said: \u201cEvery time I get in a car, I feel like, \u2018OK, here we go. Are we going to make it or not?\u2019 My feeling is, Am I going to make it today?’<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI think there is a name for that. They came up with a name recently because there are a lot of people like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAccording to the Cleveland Clinic, an intense, persistent fear of driving or riding in a vehicle is clinically called amaxophobia, while vehophobia refers to the intense fear of driving, specifically the act of operating a vehicle.<\/p>\n

\nCruz opened up about the traumatic incident in 2024, telling Elle: \u201cI have a fear of driving. My sister was run over by a car in front of me when I was eight or nine. I remember she was wearing a red coat. And for me, time stopped. It\u2019s a great trauma, because I saw her losing consciousness. And I was numb in the hospital, telling people, \u2018Oh, my sister just got run over by a car.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAnd, Cruz admitted she is hypersensitive to other people\u2019s suffering.<\/p>\n

\nShe said: \u201cI\u2019m lucky to have it, but maybe it makes me feel or suffer things more. I can feel it; it\u2019s like a hypersensitivity in every way – visually, to sound, to people\u2019s feelings. It\u2019s been one of the main things I deal with in therapy: how to work a balance so I can keep feeling those things without making those feelings my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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