Jennifer Lawrence Says Her Team Jeremiah Take Brought the Worst Backlash of Her Career

Jennifer Lawrence says the backlash to her "Team Jeremiah" opinion on The Summer I Turned Pretty was the most intense reaction of her career. Speaking on an Oct. 28 episode of Call Her Daddy, she said, as quoted by E! News: "The level of hate that I got was bigger than any controversy I've ever been involved in in my life."

The comments concerned the show's love triangle between Belly, played by Lola Tung, Conrad, played by Christopher Briney, and Jeremiah, played by Gavin Casalegno. Lawrence said she knew most fans preferred Conrad but did not expect such a strong response. She told the podcast she had been "rage baiting slightly" by teasing friends about liking Jeremiah, adding: "I thought it was innocent. It was not. People were like, 'You should die.'" She said she had not expected this to become the response she was most remembered for: "It never occurred to me that that would be the number one where people were just like, 'I wish you had never been born.'"

Lawrence had already defended the stance last year in an interview with Mubi, calling Conrad "toxic" and describing his confession the night before Belly's wedding as "sick." E! also reports that, on the same podcast, she said she was "team Gale" in The Hunger Games, a joke she made about her own franchise's love triangle.

The remarks are reported from E!'s coverage of the podcast, and we have not seen the full episode. E! describes Lawrence as now walking back the take in hindsight. Her quoted comments focus less on changing her preference than on how a fan debate turned into personal hostility.