When I was a kid, I was a barfer. I had a hair-trigger gag reflex, and if I felt even a little bit ill, I could barf at will just by thinking about it. Then I grew up. Certain smells still get to me and I’ll gag or dry-heave sometimes, but the last time I actually threw up was… years ago. When I had the Norovirus and I thought I was going to die. Not everyone is the same as me though. Some people never lose that ability to barf at will, just by thinking about it. Jennifer Lawrence is one of those people. J-Law has talked for years about her bodily functions (farting, pooping and her ability to pee anywhere) and she always has barfing stories. She’s a world-class barfer, in that I believe she’s probably barfed in every country she’s ever traveled to. So please enjoy this story about J-Law barfing at a Broadway show:
“The Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence lost her lunch during a performance of Olivia Wilde’s Broadway show, “1984,” on Monday night — but it wasn’t the edgy play that made the megastar sick. Page Six has previously reported that theater fans have been regularly fainting and tossing their cookies at the intense Orwellian drama at the Hudson Theatre.
“Sending my love to those 4 people who fainted in the audience,” Wilde even tweeted in May with the disclaimer, “Warning: this is not your grandma’s Broadway.”
The visceral reactions are apparently thanks in part to the show being “loud, and people find it shocking,” a theater pro said. “There is a particularly harrowing scene involving a rat.”
But on Monday night, a source told Page Six: “Midway through the show, Jennifer Lawrence bolted from her seat. Several people saw her getting sick in the lobby. The ushers were very helpful and courteous in helping her out.” But a friend of Lawrence’s explained that the star’s reaction had nothing to do with the play but rather, “She caught the stomach flu from her nephews.” The pal added that poor Lawrence is “really sick.”
If Jennifer Lawrence is “really sick,” then why didn’t she stay home and rest? Why did she go and infect an entire Broadway audience with the flu? And was she trying to make it to the bathroom and she just ended up barfing in the lobby? Yikes, those poor ushers. I can’t imagine already feeling sick but still dragging myself to a Broadway play… a play which is already becoming famous for making people sick. Incidentally, my gag reflex would probably be triggered if I watched a “harrowing scene involving a rat” too. Why would you pay money to see this play?!?!
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I don’t believe this story at all. From her usual modus operandi, I think she was probably drinking, and got sick from that.
Hate to be thinking that, but she has fallen and been drunk in public numerous times. I think the woman may need to check her alcohol intake.
They have been many people becoming sick during this play due to the graphic torture scenes and lights. As with a stomach flu it can come on all of a sudden. Let’s not assume she’s drunk or pregnant especially in light of this play track record of people becoming ill.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if she is pregnant.
There is an item on Blind Gossip and my guess is it’s about her and her svengali wanting to get her pregnant.
Well he loves knocking up his leads so…
I really, really hope not. Darren Aronofsky loves getting his actresses pregnant.
yeah he is going for the hat trick, the rat nosed auteur.
Me, too. Out of the blue nausea like that?
I could look at this disdainfully, but I puked on the floor of my workplace in the first trimester of my first pregnancy. During Christmas rush. In a cheese shop.
That comment just kept getting worse! Poor you! Poor customers!!!
Ditto. I also puked at work–very suddenly and with really no warning. I was on my period though, and had extreme cramps. The terrible pain made me nauseous and then suddenly I was running for the nearest trash can. It could be anything. Stuff happens at the wrong time.
I did show up at work the next day wishing I could put a note on my shirt that said, no I’m not pregnant.
Bet she’s pregnant!!
Or totally drunk !
Preggo…
She had a trailer coming so she needs the publicity and the ‘friend’ who spoke to page six was probably her.
Yeah I was wondering how a “close friend” of hers was able to talk to Page Six so quickly, when usually her real friends don’t comment on her private life. What a weird way to get publicity though.
She has a few friends that work for her so this is not surprising.
This is actually a nightmare scenario for me.
I can handle blood – I CANNOT deal with barf.
It’s wrong to admit, but it would have gotten physical if that happened near my seat.
@ Jegede
SAME. I’m a teacher and will do just about anything to avoid seeing, hearing, smelling, and/or cleaning up/going near/talking about barf. Thankfully I teach teenagers who can (most of the time) make it out of my room before they yak.
Yes! Same here, I feel you.
Two of my grade school teachers (small town, very small school) had an agreement: One would take care of the pukers, the other would take care of the bleeders. The puke-phobic one told every class to get up and leave immediately if they felt sick. As I recall, the very day he’d said that to one class, a little boy approached him, asking permission to leave, and threw up all over his desk. ;p
meh things like stomach flus can come out of nowhere. maybe that was the first inkling that she was ill.
That’s what I was thinking. Sometimes you don’t know you caught the stomach flu until you’re running for the bathroom. And then you usually find out someone you were around says “yeah, I had that a few days ago too” and there you go. Those stomach bugs are nasty.
Actually, the play is really good. I saw it 2 years ago in London. It’s rough, I closed my eyes a few times and was pretty happy to be in the cheap seats in the upper balcony. I get why people could faint or feel ill from it, but it’s really good.
But seriously, don’t go in public places when you have gastro! That’s just a terrible thing to do.
I actually think there was a good chance she was hung over.
Agreed, I unfortunately get very very sick the morning after drinking.
Maybe she looked at the pictures of herself in that outfit and couldn’t contain it anymore.
I work for a company that performs in a 3000-seat theater and so I get the house manager’s reports. There are usually a half dozen people who barf at each (non-shocking) performance. I had no idea people barfed so often.
lol
Intense flashing lights give me migraines which in turn can make me throw up. I don’t think I’d be able to handle this play.
Cue the pregnancy rumors in 3…….2…….1……
that outfit makes me barf.
Does anyone else wonder about Jen’s mental health? It’s not any one thing, its all of it added together. I am starting to suspect maybe bipolar or something. A few weeks (or months?) ago she was caught by someone dancing on a striper pole so drunk she had to be helped offstage by one of the friends she was with. I hesitate to bring this up because it sounds like slut shaming and that is not what I intend at all. It sounds like something stupid I would have done at 21 as a matter of fact. But Jennifer is getting a little old to not be more cautious about her behavior in public. I think Lawrence is actually much smarter than she lets on, so I am puzzled by her slip ups. She’s 26, and just old enough to start outgrowing the embarrassing “oops” stuff she keeps falling into. Also, I think she is a savvy business woman as well as a talented actor. She knows that part of her status as a famous person is discretion. She’s smarter than this, if that makes sense. So I wonder if she may have something else going on. If she was 22, I wouldn’t think much of it, but 26….
Jennifer has had anxiety issues and hyperactivity since childhood. It got so bad that her parents took her to a therapist and took medication. Even by seeing a therapist and taking medicine it didn’t work. The only think that helped was acting. Jennifer has been very open about this topic since 2013.
Agreed. She’s too old for this stuff but its probably not mental illness. She may just be a terrible drinker and needs someone to tell her its not okay. At almost 27 this behavior is no longer “accepted” and the number of stories she tells herself (let alone the ones she gets caught doing) should clue someone in her life to tell her to get a grip on her drinking. If this is a symptom of her anxiety (which is not unheard of) drinking is a terrible way to self-medicate. I’ve seen this in a friend of mine and she got really bad before she got help.
Its time for her to grow up now or get some help. Seems like she’s been making crap decisions for months now all around.
Ahaha, her outfit in the above pics!!
There’s something going on with this one..
Pregnant?!
Also, she looks ridiculous in that outfit. Lose EVERYTHING but the dress & sunglasses!
Re: going to a broadway show while sick. A few years back my bf got me amazing tickets to see Book of Mormon in LA. I ended up getting a horrific stomach flu a few days before the show and was considering not attending. When i thought about the price of the tix and the idea that i was feeling not as hellish as I had been feeling earlier in the week i decided to go. it was a mistake all around – i should have sold the tickets because i felt like shit after about 20 minutes and had a real close relationship with the toilet during the intermission.
TL/DR: sometimes we do things that are stupid.
Stomach flu can come on pretty quick, she may have a sensitive stomach or IBS. Didn’t she get admitted to hospital for ”gas problems” a while back, and she thought she had an ulcer? I have mild IBS and it’s the worst, certain foods can really trigger it and I get nauseated and barf a few times a year (and I’m in my 30s). It’s the worst! I can go out for dinner with friends and we may eat something bad and they’ll feel a bit ”off” but I’ll be at home sick & throwing up for a few days. Some people do have more sensitive systems unfortunately!