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Jennifer Lawrence says nude picture leak felt like being “gang-banged by the whole f***ing planet”

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Updated on July 5, 2023

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Jennifer Lawrence has previously spoken out about the terrifying incident in which a hacker stole naked photos of her, but this could be her most candid interview to date.

Lawrence has stated that she is still processing the iCloud hack, which resulted in the public release of naked pictures of herself.

All of that was discussed in the Oscar winner’s new interview with Scott Feinberg on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter Podcast.

She told host Scott that the fallout from the nude-photo hack, which exposed her and others to the entire Internet, was still affecting her. “When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can’t even put it into words,” she said.

Lawrence was on the awards circuit promoting Mother!, a divisive film that sparked a lot of buzz when it debuted in mid-September.

‘I don’t know, I feel like I got gang-banged by the fucking planet – 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.’

Some women approached her about filing a lawsuit, but the Hunger Games star revealed that she decided not to sue Apple or anyone else over the hacked photos because they wouldn’t be removed from the Internet.

“None of that was going to bring me peace and none of that was going to bring my nude body back to me and Nick [Holt], the person they were intended for.”

Lawrence said frankly, “Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this. 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.” She’s now able to share even more details regarding the hacking’s consequences.

In 2014, Majerczyk hacked into the iCloud accounts of 30 celebrities, including Jennifer’s. He had sent emails to over 300 celebrities, posing as an internet service provider and requesting their usernames and passwords, it was later revealed.

Ryan Collins was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March 2016 after pleading guilty to unauthorised access of a protected computer in the investigation into the iCloud leak, while Edward Majerczyk was sentenced to nine months in prison in January 2017 for a similar phishing scheme.