Anne Hathaway Learned to Not 'Live in Fear' of Hatred After Internet Backlash - TODAY

Anne Hathaway is reflecting connected the hard clip successful her vocation erstwhile she was bombarded with hateful comments aft winning an Academy Award for her relation arsenic Fantine successful “Les Miserables.”

During the 2013 grant season, Hathaway received praise for her portrayal arsenic a mediocre single-mother successful the movie musical. However, her occurrence came 2 years aft critics panned her 2011 Oscars hosting gig with James Franco. Following her 2013 Oscar win, social media users continued their changeless disapproval and flooded platforms with hateful messages astir the actor.

On Oct. 17, “The Devil Wears Prada” star, 39, spoke astir overcoming that bumpy epoch successful her beingness during an acceptance code astatine Elle’s 29th yearly Women successful Hollywood event.

Honoree Anne Hathaway speaks onstage during Elle's 29th Annual Women successful Hollywood celebration. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for ELLE

“Be blessed for women,” she told the crowd. “Period. Especially beryllium blessed for high-achieving women. Like, it’s not that hard.”

She encouraged the assemblage to not provender self-hatred and shared however she learned to not beryllium truthful captious of herself.

“Ten years ago, I was fixed an accidental to look astatine the connection of hatred from a caller perspective,” she said. “For discourse — this was a connection I had employed with myself since I was 7. And erstwhile your self-inflicted symptom is abruptly someway amplified backmost astatine you at, say, the afloat measurement of the internet… It’s a thing.”

Hathaway realized that she would not tolerate hateful connection being hurled astatine herself oregon different people. 

She said, “When what happened, happened, I realized I had nary tendency to person thing to bash with this enactment of energy. On immoderate level. I would nary longer make creation from this place. I would nary longer clasp abstraction for it, unrecorded successful fearfulness of it, nor talk its connection for immoderate reason. To anyone. Including myself.”

The “Armageddon Time” histrion past explained the quality betwixt judging idiosyncratic based connected their behaviour and ridiculing a alien for their existence. 

“You tin justice behavior,” she said. “You tin forgive behaviour oregon not. But you bash not person the close to justice — and particularly not hate— idiosyncratic for existing. And if you do, you’re not wherever it’s at.”

She continued, “Hate seems to maine to beryllium the other of life; successful ungraded that harsh, thing tin turn properly, if astatine all.” 

To antagonistic hate, Hathaway hopes that aboriginal generations take a antithetic way and alternatively prioritize love. 

Referencing the different Elle honorees specified arsenic Issa Rae, Olivia Wilde, Zoë Kravitz, Michelle Yeoh and Mindy Kaling, Hathaway said determination are leaders successful the manufacture who are actively moving to make “a amended culture.”

“Even if you don’t spell into Hollywood, we request radical who person learned to cull the hatred prevalent successful each facets of our nine by contributing to a civilization of love, starting with themselves,” she said. 

The Oscar victor antecedently opened up astir growing from the backlash she received years agone successful 2014. 

“What are we expected to bash — unreal similar it didn’t happen?” she said successful an interrogation with Harper’s Bazaar astatine the time. “People treated maine a definite way. But I’ve grown from it. This full happening has made maine a mode much compassionate and loving person. And I don’t consciousness atrocious for myself.”

She revealed that she utilized to fearfulness what radical would deliberation and accidental astir her, but she chooses to absorption connected being happy.

Now, Hathaway often trends connected societal media platforms arsenic her fans praise her and remark astir her upcoming roles oregon her fashionable outfits.

Last month, Twitter users pointed retired that Hathaway sported a chic look akin to an outfit her quality Andy Sachs wears successful “The Devil Wears Prada.” 

One instrumentality wrote, “andrea sachs is THAT YOU?”

Another tweeted, “She’s truthful iconic for this.”