DHAKA: US actress Jennifer Lawrence has apologized after telling a story about scratching her ‘butt’ on sacred rocks in Hawaii.
In a statement on Facebook, she said she meant “absolutely no disrespect to the Hawaiian people”.
The actress had told the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show that the incident happened when she was filming The Hunger Games in the US state.
She faced a backlash, with some viewers calling on her to apologies.
Lawrence, who won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, had told the BBC presenter she had been filming in a location where there were “sacred rocks”.
“You are not supposed to sit on them because you are not supposed to expose your genitalia to them,” she said.
“I, however, was in a wetsuit for this whole shoot so - oh my God, they were so good for butt-itching. One rock that I was butt-scratching on ended up coming loose.”
“It was a giant boulder and it rolled down this mountain and almost killed our sound guy.”
She added “His whole station got destroyed, it was a huge dramatic deal and all the Hawaiians were like ‘Oh my god, it is the curse’. And I am round the corner going, ‘I am your curse - I wedged it loose with my ass’.”
More than 1.3 million people watched the clip after it was posted on BBC One’s Facebook page.
Some viewers called on Lawrence to apologize for her comments.
The star later took to her own Facebook page to apologies, starting the post: "From Jen to the Internet."
“I meant absolutely no disrespect to the Hawaiian people,” she said.
“I really thought that I was being self-deprecating about the fact that I was ‘the curse’, but I understand the way it was perceived was not funny and I apologize if I offended anyone.”
It is not known exactly where the rocks are in Hawaii but some of the scenes of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire were filmed on the North Shore of Oahu at Kawela Bay.
It was used as the location for a scene when the tributes appear on top of the saltwater lake at the arena for the Quarter Quell.
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