Anne Hathaway has defended Jennifer Lawrence over her ‘scolding’ of a reporter at the Golden Globes

FRIENDS forever. She was called out for behaving “like an asshole” towards a foreign reporter, and now Anne Hathway has rushed to Jennifer Lawrence’s defence.

Jennifer Lawrence, with her award for best actress in a leading role for "Silver Linings Playbook," and Anne Hat...

ANNE HATHAWAY is standing shoulder to shoulder with Jennifer Lawrence.

The Intern actor has taken to Facebook to defend Lawrence after the Joy raised eyebrows for telling off a reporter at Sunday’s Golden Globes, where she took home the award for best actor in a comedy or musical.

Shortly after she won her award, Lawrence made her way backstage to answer questions from reporters. When one journalist posed a question while holding his phone up to take video of the exchange, Lawrence said: “You can’t live your whole life behind your phone, bro”.

She went on to tell the reporter: “You gotta live your life”.

When the reporter continue by asking her how she prepped for her “Oscar” night, Lawrence replied: “We’re at the Golden Globes. If you’d put your phone down, you’d know that”.

When the video of the exchange made its way online, several Twitter users took issue with Lawrence’s remarks.

TOPSHOT - Jennifer Lawrence poses with the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy for her role in “Joy,” in the press room at the 73nd annual Golden Globe Awards, January 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / FREDERIC J BROWN

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 10: In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal, Presenters Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence speak onstage during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Many criticised the Hunger Games star for being “culturally insensitive” and even for behaving “like an asshole” towards the reporter, whose first language didn’t appear to be English.

Five days later, Lawrence’s peer Hathaway came to her defence on Facebook, saying: “It’s become pretty clear that the Jennifer Lawrence “scolding” was taken out of context and that she was dryly joking with a journalist who was indeed using his phone to take photos of her”.

“Let’s not continue the sad but common practice of building people — especially women — up just to viciously tear them down when we perceive them to have misstepped,” Hathaway, 33, wrote.

This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from the film, "Joy." Lawrence was nominated for an Oscar for best actress on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, for her role in the film. The 88th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 28,, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)

“Jennifer is a beautiful, talented, wildly successful, popular, FOUR TIME OSCAR NOMINATED young woman. Please let us not punish her for these things,” Hathaway wrote.

She then signed the post, “A J-Law fan” and added the hashtags: #‎supportstrongwomen, #‎imwithher and #‎whycantwegiveloveonemorechance.

Hathaway’s post in defence of Jennifer Lawrence has so far gained nearly 51,000 likes and over 1,500 shares.