Read the following article from a website.

A British journalist saved from oncoming traffic by Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling is regretting taking to twitter to boast of the incident and begging people not to tweet her about it. 

While the actor may have rescued Laurie Penny from being run over by a New York cab he can do nothing to save her from the backlash against her smug tweet and the anti-American articles she has written afterwards. 

It began when The Notebook actor came to Penny's rescue and she could not resist tweeting; 'I literally just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened.'

But it seems the journalist, who writes for The Independent and The Guardian, is now desperately trying to backtrack on her excitable tweet which caused a media storm.

However, in Penny's ill-judged response to America's reaction to her brush with stardom she has criticised Americans for being 'insane' and 'losing all sense of perspective' in two separate articles and on Twitter. 

Now Penny has seemingly quit Twitter declaring: 'I'm leaving Twitter until all this bloody fuss dies down. Honestly, it would have been less trouble to get run over.'

While people were quick to praise the 31-year-old Canadian actor for stopping Penny walking into traffic on Tuesday night others have been quicker to slam Penny for her irritating tweets and articles about being rescued. 

In an article on Gawker Penny urged people to stop over-reacting to her original tweet.

However, the piece - titled 'Ryan Gosling saved me from a Speeding Car butthere's War In the Middle East so Everyone Calm Down' - has only served to stoke the fire with critics mocking her self-righteous tone.