Jennifer Lawrence is doing the promotional rounds for her new film Passengers, and as such showed up on the Graham Norton Show and told what she presumably *hoped* would be a light-hearted story about the time she accidentally dismantled a sacred rock pile in Hawaii.
Unfortunately, the story—in which Lawrence says she unintentionally sat on a pile of sacred rocks to relieve an itch—was a miss for a lot of people who voiced concerns over potential cultural insensitivity.
"Hey Hawaiians, I scratched my ass with your sacred stones, broke one, almost killed a man, and 😂 at your spirituality."-Jennifer Lawrence https://t.co/1ihjGuddVyDecember 7, 2016
She rubbed her butt on a monument ppl used to spiritually represent their ancestors n she thought it was cute https://t.co/viCdjKvaD1December 7, 2016
Of course, some people came to Lawrence's defense:
And suddenly everyone hates Jennifer Lawrence for the same reason they liked her. Not like she changed just hit a touchy subject.December 8, 2016
The actress has yet to comment on the incident.
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