When Jennifer Lawrence thought Woody Harrelson was going to sue her: “I’m an asshole”
Whenever she appears on a talk show or is interviewed by the press, Jennifer Lawrence has a habit of spilling her guts. That outspoken nature quickly became a key part of her appeal, with the star refusing to either tone down or drown out her internal monologue, even when the entire world is watching.
Since breaking out with Winter’s Bone in 2010 and then becoming a bonafide star with The Hunger Games series, Lawrence has never been afraid to speak her mind. Sometimes, this manifests in fearlessly frank discussions about the pay disparity in Hollywood between men and women. Other times, her goofy side wins out, with the actor developing a habit of oversharing or saying things out loud that were perhaps best kept quiet.
Lawrence’s approach to life in the public eye means that no matter what version of her is faced with a live microphone, she’s always guaranteed to generate headlines. Indeed, her honesty – which is, at times, painful and unvarnished – is a crucial reason why audiences worldwide took her into their hearts. It’s charming, disarming, and, more often than not, hilarious.
Take Woody Harrelson, for example, Lawrence’s co-star in The Hunger Games franchise. No stranger to a wild night on the town or two, the actor hit the tiles with his colleague and decided that he’d be best served to sleep off the impending hangover at her house. When he woke up, Lawrence became gripped with fear that she could end up on the receiving end of some friendly litigation.
“Woody cut his foot,” she admitted to Harper’s Bazaar before detailing how ill-equipped she was to handle the sight of blood, even if it was technically her fault. “He stayed over in one of my guest bedrooms, but that’s where I started puking. I broke a candle because I can’t just puke like a normal person; I flay my arms everywhere. And I didn’t clean it up because I’m an asshole.”
Because she’s an asshole who didn’t clean up the broken candle, the shards found their way into Harrelson’s foot. “The next day, he cut his foot open,” she confessed. “I was like, ‘Fuck, am I going to get sued?’ And he’s like, ‘Are you going to ask if I’m OK?’ That night got crazy.”
Thankfully, though, Harrelson didn’t hold the candle-related mishap against Lawrence, and they’re still good friends. Not many people would be worried about getting sued for a household mishap, but Hollywood being the place that it is, it wouldn’t exactly be anything out of the ordinary.
After all, people have been slapped with lawsuits for a lot less, but Harrelson hardly comes across as the type of guy who’d slice his foot open and decide the only possible way to recover from such an egregious injury was with a healthy amount of court-ordered remuneration.
