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Jennifer Lawrence speaks out after nude photos leak: ‘I feel like I got gang-banged’

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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Jennifer Lawrence has already spoken up about the terrifying incident in which a hacker stole nude photos of her, but this possibly be her most candid interview about it to date.

Lawrence has stated that she is still ‘processing’ the iCloud breach, which resulted in the public release of naked images of herself.

The Oscar winner opened up to Scott Feinberg on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter Podcast.

She told the host that the incident 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.

Jennifer, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton, and Amber Heard were among the celebs targeted in the iCloud breach of 2014, which saw their personal photos were exposed online.

‘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 ladies approached her about filing a lawsuit, but the Hunger Games actor explained that she opted not to sue Apple or anybody else over the leaked photographs because they wouldn’t be removed off 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, Edward Majerczyk hacked into the iCloud accounts of 30 celebrities, including Jennifer’s. He had written emails to over 300 celebrities, acting as an internet service provider and requesting their usernames and passwords, it was subsequently revealed.

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

The actress also discussed a number of issues, including her own interactions with the late film mogul Harvey Weinstein and being body shamed to lose weight for a part.