Jennifer Lawrence Was Asked About Her 2013 Oscars Fall Again, And Her Response Is Kinda Heartbreaking

After Hugh Jackman sprinted over to her aid, Jennifer clambered up onto the stage and jokingly told the cheering audience: “You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell, and that’s really embarrassing.”

“I fell the next year, too. So then it looked like I 100% faked [it]. It was awful,” she recalled. “I fell on a cone.”

Discussing her 2013 fall a few years ago, Jennifer confessed that it was “devastating” when people accused her of pulling a publicity stunt.

“I was very nervous and also very superstitious,” she recalled of her winning night during a 2020 podcast appearance. “I didn’t want to acknowledge the possibility that I would win. I didn’t want to write down a speech.”

“All of the adrenaline clears out and they call my name and I’m elated and I’m in shock. And then I fell, and it erased everything from my mind,” she remembered. “Anderson Cooper, I saw him on CNN three days later saying: ‘Well she obviously faked the fall,’ and it was so devastating because it was this horrific humiliation to me.”

She continued: “I don’t know if I’ll ever have a chance to give a speech like that again, so it didn’t feel good for me not to have a speech.”

“I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me,” she told Vanity Fair during her comeback interview in late 2021. “It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right.”

“If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’ … I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life,” she continued. “Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. Nobody’s mad.’ And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence.”