Anne Hathaway Recalls ‘Hathahate’ During Powerful Speech About Love & 'Learned' Behaviors
perezhilton.comAnne Hathaway has a message for Hathahaters. During Elle’s Women in Hollywood event Monday, the 39-year-old was spotlighted alongside Issa Rae, Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Ariana DeBose, Mindy Kaling, Zoë Kravitz, Nina Garcia, Olivia Wilde, and Sydney Sweeney — and Anne took the opportunity to make waves. Related: Selma Blair Emotionally Exits Dancing With The Stars Due To MS Battle The star reflected on a time in 2013, around her Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for Les Misérables, where she was receiving an inordinate amount of vitriol online, sometimes referred to as #HathaHate on social media.
Unfortunately that hate sadly mirrored her own self-deprecating views at the time. During an impassioned speech, Anne revealed how it all affected her — and how she got through it, beginning: It’s so sad that receiving hate from online trolls is what it took for her to change her own self-image, but we’re glad she was able to learn from it and eventually turn a new, positive, loving leaf.
She continued: The Interstellar star then expressed her “firm belief that we are born experiencing love”: It’s probably safe to assume that raising sons Jonathan, 6, and Jack, 2, with husband Adam Shulman, contributed a great deal to her shift in mindset, as well.
She had the opportunity to raise these young men to maintain that love she spoke about being born with. We’re all for breaking negative generational norms! Related: Are Selena Gomez & Hailey Bieber Really Putting Their Drama Behind Them?! The award winner had previously spoken on her hate in a 2014 Ellen interview, addressing a story called Why Does Everybody Hate Anne Hathaway, which she had a hard time moving past because she “didn’t love” herself.
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