We, like much of the 7 billion people that populate this planet, love Jennifer Lawrence. she’s always remained down to earth, slightly crazy and completely normal since her meteoric rise to stardom. Thats why most people really genuinely felt for her when the nude pics were stolen from her iCloud account recently, along with a host of other high profile women.
Well, Jen has broken her silence on the the whole thing in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, and believes the incident (quite rightly), is a sex crime.
“It’s not a scandal. It’s a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. the law needs to be changed and we need to change. That’s why these websites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.”
Jennifer opened up and admitted that the whole thing left her devastated, but that after she had time to reflect on it, she feels she has nothing that she needs to apologise for.
“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.”
Jennifer feels like the whole culture around celebrity is reaching boiling point, and it’s only a matter of time before something is gonna give or someone gets really hurt.
“Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this,” she says. “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. ”
The attitude to people in the spotlight needs to change, and we, all of us reading AND writing things like this, need to examine how we approach the privacy of those celebs whose lives are out there in the public eye.
(Images and source – VanityFair, MailOnline, Tumblr)
