Jennifer Lawrence offers a classic Hollywood 'apology' for rubbing her ass on sacred Hawaiian rocks
After her ill-advised remarks this week about using sacred Hawaiian rocks for “butt-scratching” and nearly killing a crew member while filming on location in Hawaii, the actress Jennifer Lawrence offered up a non-apology about the controversy on Friday.
“I meant absolutely no disrespect to the Hawaiian people. I really thought that I was being self deprecating about the fact that I was ‘the curse,’ but I understand the way it was perceived was not funny and I apologize if I offended anyone,” Lawrence wrote on Facebook.
She was responding to righteous anger over a cheeky anecdote she shared in a recent BBC interview about filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in Hawaii in 2015.
“There were…sacred…rocks—I don’t know, they were ancestors, who knows—they were sacred,” Lawrence said, when host Graham Norton asked about the incident. “And you’re not supposed to sit on them, because you’re not supposed to expose your genitalia to them.”