Jennifer’s proximity to Harvey Weinstein at the moment didn’t assist, both. After apologizing to her “little rascal” for failing to say him throughout her 2013 Oscars acceptance speech, the pair had saved up a pleasant rapport within the public eye.
However in 2017, misconduct accusations began mounting in opposition to the producer thick and quick, together with a variety of harassment and abuse claims made by well-known public figures. On the time, Jennifer admitted that she was discovering the allegations troublesome to course of.
“I had identified him since I used to be 20, and he had solely ever been good to me — apart from the moments that he wasn’t, after which I known as him an asshole, and we moved on,” she defined. “He was paternal to me.”
Her candor on the subject wound up backfiring in February 2018 when Weinstein and his authorized group used the quote in his protection whereas making an attempt to dismiss one other harassment lawsuit.
His attorneys strategically name-dropped Jennifer, Meryl Streep, and Gwyneth Paltrow in a bid to argue that the three ladies supported him. Jennifer and Meryl wound up retaliating by issuing statements in opposition to Weinstein, instantly calling out the best way his attorneys took their phrases out of context. “That is what predators do, and it should cease,” Jennifer informed CNN on the time.
However, sadly, her affiliation with Weinstein didn’t finish there. On the finish of that very same 12 months, a lady claimed in one other misconduct case in opposition to Weinstein that he had bragged about having intercourse with Jennifer, apparently saying: “I slept with Jennifer Lawrence and look the place she is; she has simply received an Oscar.” The identical day the lawsuit was filed, Jennifer hit again in one other assertion vehemently denying ever having had intercourse with Weinstein.
Nevertheless, the harm was already finished. Because the #MeToo motion picked up steam, uniting ladies as they shared their tales and fought in opposition to harassment and abuse, Jennifer was positioned firmly on the surface of the sisterhood.
