Jennifer Lawrence says rumours about ‘fling’ with Liam Hemsworth are ‘not true’

Jennifer Lawrence has said that it is “not true” she had a “secret fling” with Hunger Games co-star, Liam Hemsworth, whilst he was together with singer Miley Cyrus.

References in Cyrus’s song Flowers, released in January, sparked speculation that something had happened between the two.

Lawrence, 32, replied: “Not true. I would love to (respond). Not true. Total rumour.”

The American actress, who has credits in Don’t Look Up, Passengers and American Hustle, clarified that she had kissed Hemsworth once, off-camera, years after the couple had broken up and before they had got back together.

Plead The Fifth, which is a regular segment on the US talk show, is a reference to the US constitutional right to remain silent when facing criminal charges.

Lawrence and Hemsworth were co-stars in The Hunger Games films, which are sci-fi, dystopian-style movie adaptations of the Suzanne Collins novels.

In Cyrus’s Flowers music video, which is said to be a break-up song about Hemsworth, she wore a gold hooded dress, which was rumoured to reference a dress Lawrence wore to The Hunger Games premiere with Hemsworth in 2012.

In 2020, Cyrus and Hemsworth officially divorced and speaking to Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview, she said: “I felt like my story and my narrative had kind of been told for me over the past year.

“Obviously I went through an extremely public break-up and, even more than that, a divorce, and with someone that I had been with for 10 years.

“I felt kind of villainised. I also felt like I kind of shut down, because it was kind of, respectfully, below me to engage with the press and the media at that time.”

“It felt like I would rather be able to articulate this experience in a poetic way that also I can put back into my art. I never really have engaged. I’ve only played with the public and the perception in that way.”

Lawrence was speaking as she promotes new comedy film No Hard Feelings.