I cried during speech, being stared at (9)
I believe the answer is:
eyeballed
'stared at' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'i cried during speech' is the wordplay.
'i' becomes 'eye' (I've seen this in other clues).
'cried' becomes 'bawled' ('bawl' can be a synonym of 'cry').
'during speech' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'bawled' sounds like 'balled'.
'eye'+'balled'='EYEBALLED'
'being' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for eyeballed that I've seen before include "looked at" , "Stared at" , "Watched" , "confronted" .)