Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Bummed Out at People’s Choice?

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By Ted Casablanca, Taryn Ryder Jan 06, 2011 6:08 PMTags
Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Robert PattinsonChristopher Polk/Getty Images

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner all made brief (and we mean brief) appearances at the People's Choice Awards in LA last night to pick up their awards, and while it may have appeared to be smooth sailing on TV, it was a bit more hectic backstage.

We were bombarded with tweets about Kristen being seemingly "distant" with Pattinson.

So what was wrong?

How about this: It was down to the wire whether the golden three were even going to make it there!

The Eclipse stars needed to be in their seats by the sixth commercial break and they were nowhere to be found, with the staff franticly calling each other on their headsets trying to track them all down.

"We need them in their seats now!!!!" was just one of the stressed calls being volleyed back and forth.

Finally, Lautner was the first to arrive in a car and was briefly able to hang backstage before being rushed in with bodyguards.

That left Rob and Kristen who were shortly behind Tay-Tay and were the last to arrive together in the same car, of course.

Stewart was taken to her seat first, then Rob sprinted out not too far behind.

Just a tad hectic, no?

So maybe before tweeps jump to the conclusion that K.Stew "looked off" when the camera cut to her, think how you would feel being that rushed!

Especially after a long day of filming in Baton Rouge, where Kristen pleased the crowd by announcing she played a vampire earlier that day.

And for what it's worth, for the short time they were in the audience R & K seemed totally fine.

"They were laughing and smiling together once they got a second to relax," adds a source inside the show.

"Kristen would lean into Rob and they would talk when they could."

As for third-wheelin' Taylor Lautner, let's not be too hard on him!

He and K.Stew are super tight friends after all, what's the big whoop if it was him who helped her up to the podium?