Jennifer Lawrence wants her fans to know she wasn’t trying to prove herself or make a point when she walked the red carpet at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in May. .

When Lawrence was given high heels that were one size too big, she swapped them for flip flops Entertainment Tonight report. Her famous actress was afraid of her falling, so she wore flip flops to her Dior dress, a haute couture Christian, and attended a celebrity-filled event, but she didn’t know what she was doing. She said she made headlines online for her bold fashion choices. Fans quickly took notice and assumed she was speaking out about Lawrence’s choice to wear flats, which is a fiasco at this kind of event.

“I really want this issue resolved. I wasn’t making a political statement,” she said. Said people.

“I wasn’t making a political statement, and I wasn’t saying I wasn’t. There was a debate going on about people wearing flats or walking the red carpet barefoot. I didn’t know it until it came out.I had no clue.My shoe size was too big.” # Jennifer Lawrence # Cannes 2023 pic.twitter.com/xgtsc88XGb

— Lawricious (@lawrliciouss) June 9, 2023

“I didn’t know until it came out that there was a lot of controversy about people wearing flats and walking the red carpet barefoot. I had no idea,” she said.

“My shoe size was too big.”

Lawrence, completely unaware of the constant exchange of comments about her online, took a picture with the production team, Excellent Cadaver.

“So we had to take some great corpse pictures, but we knew that if we were wearing shoes that were too big, we would be eating terrible things,” she said.

“I put on my flip flops and everyone was like, ‘What a statement!’ Wow!” she told Entertainment Tonight.

The online conversation was based on a long history of controversy over wearing high heels at the Cannes Film Festival. According to People magazine, a woman wearing flat shoes was denied entry to the 2015 festival, sparking widespread outrage. The following year, Julia Roberts bravely challenged the topic without wearing her shoes while walking the red carpet, while A-listers like Kristen Stewart and Susan Sarandon took to the stage in protest against forcing change. I wore flat shoes. (Related: All the ‘Worst’ Moments of the Met Gala)

Lawrence said she was misunderstood and wanted to clarify that her intention was simply to ensure safety while strutting her luggage on the red carpet.

“I am all for making a statement,” she said. “I hope it’s intentional.”