“For whatever reason, people are very trigger happy to call me stupid or call me vain or call me a slut, which is crazy. I was in the same relationship for 15 years, you know?” Fox told “Entertainment Tonight,” referring to her marriage to now-estranged-husband Brian Austin Green.

“It’s bizarre, this image that gets projected onto me that people have just accepted and that’s lived for over a decade,” Fox, 34, continued, “and that I never really did anything to earn in the first place.”

Fox has learned to block out the criticism and negativity and instead focus on what’s best for her, even as she struggles with the strict rules of quarantine.

“My life changed so much during the quarantine. It’s crazy,” Fox said. “I’m not somebody who’s ever done well with authority or being restricted by authority, so this has been really challenging for me. It’s taught me a lot of patience, honestly, and I had to surrender.”

Among the changes in Fox’s life are a divorce, a new relationship and several new movies despite COVID-19 restrictions.

“This is something I can’t fight,” she said of the pandemic. “I had to surrender to it and trust that the universe is carrying me.”