Even the stars sometimes take a tumble! Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian Michael B. Jordan are just a few celebrities who’ve completely wiped out while the cameras have been rolling.
The American HustleActress suffered a series of slips while on the award show circuit in February 2013.
Lawrence attended a dinner at her home ahead of the 2013 BAFTA Awards. Silver Linings PlaybookCostar Bradley CooperIn London, but made a mistake outside the restaurant. Lawrence was spotted on the curb and lost her shoe, as fans watched.
Later that month, the Kentucky native facedplanted at the 2013 Oscars Hollywood as she accepted the award for Best Actress. Silver Linings Playbook.
“You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell — it’s really embarrassing,” Lawrence said after being helped up and to the podium to receive her award. “This is nuts!”
Two years later, Lawrence’s Hunger GamesCostar Liam HemsworthDuring an appearance on, she showed that she is not as clumsy after all. Late Night with Seth Meyers.
The Australia native explained that Lawrence falling is “not at all” part of an elaborate act. “She’s terrible at walking,” he said in November 2015, referencing the time that the actress broke her high heel while walking a red carpet with him.
“She got down the stairs there, and we got to the back of the theater and one of her heels broke, and she went down,” Hemsworth recalled of a Hunger Games London premiere. “Thankfully, it was at the back of the theater so only a couple of people saw her. I picked her up and she only has one heel on, so I’m walking her out, [but then] we get outside the theater and a friend of mine comes up and I’m like, ‘Hey, good to see you!’ and I let go.”
Lawrence, for her part, later addressed her tendency to slip, especially during the 2013 Oscars while appearing on the “Absolutely Not with Heather McMahan” podcast in October 2020.
The X-Men Dark Phoenix star explained that “for a very long time, the fall thing was very sensitive” for her, but she has since started to look back it “fondly.” Lawrence also revealed that she and Anderson CooperAfter the incident, there was some friction when he claimed she was faking it.
“It was so devastating because it was this horrific humiliation to me,” she recalled, noting she eventually spoke with Cooper about his comments. “I don’t know if I’ll ever have a chance to give a speech like that again, so it didn’t feel good for me not to have a speech.” Cooper later apologized for saying she was faking the whole thing, with Lawrence adding, “I think we’re good friends now.”
Scroll down to see which celebrities have fallen from the stage during a performance, or simply by walking on the ground:
