When Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2013 for her performance in “Les Miserables”, what should have been cause for elation instead led her to be hit with a wave of online hatred.
Honoured at Elle‘s annual Women in Hollywood event on Monday night, she delivered a speech referencing how she got through the “Hathahate” experience. “Ten years ago, I was given an opportunity to look at the language of hatred from a new perspective,” Hathaway told the audience at the event, as reported by IndieWire. READ MORE: Mindy Kaling ‘Fell In Love With’ Anne Hathaway For Handling Rude Interview Like A Boss “For context — this was a language I had employed with myself since I was seven.
And when your self-inflicted pain is suddenly somehow amplified back at you at, say, the full volume of the internet… It’s a thing,” she continued. “When it happened to me, I realized that this wasn’t it.
This wasn’t the spot. When what happened, happened, I realized I had no desire to have anything to do with this line of energy, on any level.
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