Emmy Award-winning Mr. Robot star Rami Malek isn't handling fame well at all and friends tell Breaking Celebrity News that he's become "a virtual chain-smoking recluse who is too afraid of his fans to date or socialize."

"Rami really is turning into his odd-ball character on Mr. Robot," warned an insider of the 35-year-old actor.

"When he's not working, he's at home smoking cigarettes, memorizing scripts and monitoring the show's popularity on social media, which only scares him even more."

And when Malek does venture out?

"He can't walk down his New York City street without being recognized now an