With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech.

Brown contrasts genuine personal loyalty with the transactional attachments that can form around celebrity. The speaker’s mistrust is rooted in the asymmetry of fame: attention and companionship may be offered not out of care for the individual, but for access to status, money, opportunities, or social proximity. By calling such a bond “a leech,” the quote frames these relationships as parasitic—sustained by extracting value from the famous person while giving little emotional reciprocity in return. The passage also implies a warning about boundaries: fame can distort social signals, making it harder to tell who is present for the person versus the persona and the benefits that come with it.