The 'Hunger Games' actress acknowledged that paparazzi would become a 'reality' in her life, but she felt 'scared' and 'invasive' when being surrounded by them.
- Nov 17, 2014
AceShowbiz - Jennifer Lawrence opened up about how paparazzi made her "feel scared" in an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, November 15. Jennifer said she knew that being a celebrity would made her lose her privacy but she wasn't prepared for the emotional and physical tolls that privacy loss would take on her.
"I knew the paparazzi were going to be a reality in my life," the 24-year-old actress admitted, "But I didn't know that I would feel anxiety every time I open my front door, or that being chased by 10 men you don't know, or being surrounded, feels invasive and makes me feel scared and gets my adrenaline going every day."
Jennifer, who became one of the victims of the nude photo hacking in August and September, said, "You can say, 'This (invasion of privacy) is part of my job and this is going to be a reality of my life,' but what you don't expect is how your body and how your emotions are going to react to it."
She added, "Nobody wants to help us because it seems like, you know, 'Shut up, millionaires!' "
Sitting with her "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" co-stars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer told the site that although she loved her job, "there are some things that I couldn't really prepare for."
She said that at one time when she opened the window at a hotel where she's staying, she discovered "a team of paparazzi outside that are shooting up into my hotel room. And we can't ask them to move because they're on public property. And they can photograph me because I'm a public person or can chase me because I'm a public person."
She hoped that changing the law would protect public figures like her. "If these laws are going to be in place to protect the press and to protect the paparazzi and to protect the news, then new measures need to be made, because this is an entirely new phenomenon. This didn't exist 200 years ago," she stated.
"And my belief, and it's something I am going to work very hard on changing and I hope it changes before I die, is to make it illegal to buy, post or shop a photo that's been obtained illegally," she continued, "I have photographers that jump my fence... if somebody jumps my fence and takes a picture through my window of me naked, that's illegal, but the photos can still be everywhere (online) the next day, and that makes no sense!"
