ack in 2014, several celebrities’ nude photos were leaked to the public after hackers took advantage of a massive breach in Apple’s iCloud service. The photos were published all over the Internet and the celebrities — including Jennifer Lawrence — were left with the task of dealing with the fallout on their own. It was a horrible violation of privacy and a pretty not great display of the way humans sometimes treat each other.
In a recent podcast interview, Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about what it felt like to have her private photos displayed to the public. And she did not hold back.
Jennifer Lawrence is one of several celebrities affected by the hack.
Others include Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. In all, the leak contained nearly 500 photos, many of them containing nudity. The images were originally uploaded to the site 4chan before being disseminated to all corners of the Internet. Perez Hilton even posted Lawrence’s photos to his own site, although he eventually took them down and apologized.
Jennifer Lawrence’s pictures had been intended for Nicholas Hoult, whom she was dating when the pictures were taken.
After the photos leaked, Lawrence says that her first impulse was to apologize. “I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for,” she told Vanity Fair. “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.”
This morning, the podcast Awards Chatter shared an interview that host Scott Feinberg did with Lawrence.
In the episode, Lawrence talked about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, how she was discovered as an actress, and her newest film, Mother!
She also directly addressed what it felt like to have her private pictures shared with the world.
“When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can’t even put it into words,” she told Feinberg.
“I think that I’m still actually processing it. When I first found out it was happening, my security reached out to me. It was happening minute-to-minute — it was almost like a ransom situation where they were releasing new ones every hour or so.”
“I feel like I got gang-banged by the f**king planet,” she continued. “Like, there’s not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me.”
“You can just be at a barbecue and somebody can just pull them up on their phone. That was a really impossible thing to process.”
It’s hard to imagine what it must be like to live with the constant threat of having your personal photos — intended solely for your significant other — accessible by complete strangers.
Lawrence had even more to say on the matter…
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