Jennifer Lawrence has said that the trauma of having her nude photos leaked online "will exist forever."
The Hunger Games star was the victim of an iCloud hack back in 2014 which saw intimate photos of her published across the internet without her consent.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, the now 31-year-old actress opened up about how the incident put a toll on her mental health.
"Anybody can go look at my naked body without my consent, at any time of day," she said, adding: "Somebody in France just published them. My trauma will exist forever."
After gaining access to Lawrence's iCloud in 2014, hackers published the images on 4Chan and Reddit. A host of other celebrities were also targetted, including Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton, and Ariana Grande.
The actress has since taken a break from public life, not appearing in a film since 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Elsewhere in the interview, she spoke about wanting to keep her family life with husband Cooke Maroney as private as possible - especially now she is pregnant with their first child.
"Every instinct in my body wants to protect their privacy for the rest of their lives, as much as I can," the Oscar-winning actress said. "I don't want anyone to feel welcome into their existence."
She also touched on Harvey Weinstein, saying she felt fortunate to have largely avoided his influence because she was already a well-known and in-demand actress by the time they met.
This is not the first time Lawrence has spoken out about her photos being leaked. In an interview with Vogue in 2017, she spoke about how it had made her feel judged by the whole world, saying:
"It's scary when you feel the whole world judges you. I think people saw [the hacking] for what it was, which was a sex crime, but that feeling, I haven't been able to get rid of it."
After her almost three-year break, Lawrence is set to return to the big screen in the upcoming end-of-the-world comedy Don't Look Up.
Directed by Adam McKay, the movie follows two scientists struggling to convince the world that they must do something about a giant asteroid heading directly for earth.
Lawrence stars as a low-level astronomer alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, and Jonah Hill.
The film is set for release on December 10, 2021.
