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Anne Hathaway used the backlash that followed her 2013 Oscars win as an opportunity to tackle her inner demons. While speaking at ELLE’s Women in Hollywood event on October 17, “The Devil Wears Prada” actor reflected on the outpouring of online criticism she received and tied it to the self-loathing she harbored from a very young age. “When what happened, happened, I realized I had no desire to have anything to do with this line of energy,” she said about the “Hathahate” era. In fact, the pain from the cruel comments helped Hathaway practice self-care, which in turn impacted how she approached roles. “I would no longer create art from this place,” she said of eschewing hate. “I would no longer hold space for it, live in fear of it, nor speak its language for any reason. To anyone. Including myself,” the “Ocean’s 8” star added.
This was not the first time Hathaway opened up about how she coped with the well-publicized online backlash. In 2017, she discussed how confronting the hate allowed her to identify issues she wanted to work on. “To that extent, even though I wouldn’t have chosen to go through it, I still found a way to be grateful to it,” Hathaway told Jezebel.
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Initially, though, the actor admitted to having a hard time processing the negativity, as she was still too close to her troubled “Les Misérables” character. “I was still identifying with being a victim,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2014.
