In an interview with Vanity Fair, Jennifer Lawrence recounted how she and her dog almost died in a plane crash. Here are the details of the story.
Jennifer Lawrence continues to triumph. The actress has become the cover of Vanity Fair for the month of December and she has told the magazine a shocking story about how she almost died in a plane crash.
Jennifer Lawrence details the moment she almost died in a plane crash
The actress said that she had already made up her mind that she was going to die after a private plane in which she was traveling suffered a double engine failure. "My skeleton was all that was left on the seat," she told Vanity Fair.
It all happened in 2017 when the Oscar winner was on her way to New York City from her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. There came a time during the trip when the passengers were told they had to attempt an emergency landing in Buffalo.
The actress was traveling with another passenger and her dog, Pippi
The 'Don't Look Up' star detailed that she was just one of two passengers on the plane; the other was the son of the doctor who was present when she and her two brothers were born. “We were all going to die. I started leaving little mental voicemails to my family, you know, 'I've had a great life, I'm sorry,'" she recounted.
"I felt guilty. Everyone was going to be so bummed out. And oh, God, [my dog] Pippi was on my lap, that was the worst part. Here's this little thing that didn't ask to be a part of any of this," Lawrence added.
“I started to pray”, Jennifer Lawrence when seeing the track full of ambulances
Once arriving in Buffalo and seeing the track full of fire trucks and ambulances, Lawrence says that she began to pray. “I started praying. Not the specific God I grew up with, because he was scary and a very judgmental guy. But I thought, my God, maybe we will survive this? I will be a burn victim, this will be painful, but maybe we will live,” she said.
“‘Please, Lord Jesus, let me keep my hair. [...] Please don't let me go bald,'” the actress joked about what she thought at the time.
The actress recounts that the plane hit the runway, bounced and hit the runway again before coming to rest. Rescuers opened the door of the plane and got everyone out unharmed, but Lawrence then had to board another plane "anesthetized thanks to a very large pill and several mini bottles of rum," the actress said.
