Over the weekend, celebrity reporter Kjersti Flaa called out Anne Hathaway for being “dismissive” toward her when she interviewed her in 2012.
Kjersti — who recently went viral for sharing her extremely awkward interview with Blake Lively — was interviewing Anne at a press junket for Les Misérables, a period musical set during a time of political unrest in 19th-century France.
In a bid to make her interview “different” from other journalists', Kjersti explained that she chose to sing one of her questions to the Les Mis cast and asked them to sing their answers back to her.
While actors Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, and Russell Crowe seemingly enjoyed the concept, Anne wasn’t quite on board. When Kjersti shared her interview idea, Anne laughed and said, “Well, I won’t be doing that, but you’re more than welcome to sing,” before taking a sip of her water.
Kjersti said that Anne was “so dismissive” of her from that point onwards and showed clips of the actor giving short, blunt answers to some of her questions.
“She hated me, let’s face it,” said Kjersti, who described the entire interaction as “really, really, really cringeworthy.”
Well, since resharing the interview on YouTube, Kjersti has claimed that Anne contacted her privately via her publicist to apologize.
“Yesterday, I did receive an email. It was from Anne Hathaway’s publicist, and he forwarded a message to me from Anne Hathaway,” Kjersti claimed in a new YouTube video.
“I have to say, I was pretty shocked. I had not expected her to reach out to me at all. … She sent me a long email explaining to me what she was going through right then when she did this interview, and she apologized for giving me an awful interview, basically,” she said.
“It was a very personal note,” Kjersti continued, adding that she and Anne had agreed not to share the details of her message.
Kjersti also revealed that Anne invited her to interview her for her next movie, which will be released in May 2025.
Several internet users praised Anne for reportedly hastily responding privately and apologizing all these years later.
“What a class act. I am so happy she apologized. We are all only human,” one person wrote, while someone else agreed, “Very classy.”
“She's such a graceful person,” another person said. “Very kind. She didn't need to respond and apologize. People have bad days,” someone else commented.
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