Lloyd Bishop/NBC(NEW YORK) — Hollywood darling Jennifer Lawrence found herself in the middle of controversy when she was among the celebrities targeted in that nude photo leak last month. Now the Hunger Games actress is opening up about how she felt then, and still feels now.
“I was just so afraid. I didn’t know how this would affect my career,” she says of the ordeal in the November issue of Vanity Fair.
Lawrence said she tried to issue a statement after reports initially surfaced that several celebrities had been hacked and photos of them in various states of undress were released, but says “every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.”
“Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this,” she continued. “It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world.”
Lawrence said not only are the hackers to blame, but the websites that posted the photos and those who looked at them.
“It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” she said. “It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.”
But the most difficult thing about the incident, Lawrence says, was having to tell her father.
“When I have to make that phone call to my dad and tell him what’s happened…I don’t care how much money I get for The Hunger Games. I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it,” she said.
“Fortunately, he was playing golf, so he was in a good mood,” she quipped.
Lawrence will next be seen on the big screen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, opening nationwide November 21.
Follow @ABCNewsRadio
Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio
