Last year was an extremely emotional period for actress Jennifer Lawrence. Not only did she wrap up filming the final installment in the highly popular The Hunger Games movie series, but she also ended a long-term relationship with her now-ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult around the same time. On Friday (Nov. 13), Lawrence opened up to ABC News' Diane Sawyer about the troubling period in her life and her thoughts on marriage on Nightline.
The end of a movie era will take place on Nov. 20, when The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 makes its way into theaters. Each film in the movie trilogy, based off books of the same name, have generated an enormous fan base and even bigger earnings at the box office.
While leaving her character Katniss Everdeen behind took a toll on her, she was also dealing with personal issues. Although she didn't mention any names, Lawrence and ex-boyfriend Hoult ended their relationship in August 2014, around the same time she finished filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.
“These movies had been my life for so long and they had to come first in everything,” Lawrence told Sawyer. “I was also in a relationship with somebody for five years and that was my life. So my life was this person and these movies and we broke up around the same time that I wrapped those movies.”
The couple met while costarring in 2011's X-Men: First Class and briefly split in 2013, before getting cozy again on and off-screen in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Lawrence and the 25-year-old British actor maintained a long-distance relationship during their five years of dating.
The Kentucky native felt lost for a certain period of time after closing those chapters in her life. At the time, the actress was 24 and questioning who she was without this beloved character and the love of her life.
Her conversation with Sawyer explored a plethora of topics like growing up a child with high energy and remaining vocal about the gender wage gap in Hollywood. Lawrence also detailed how her life has evolved since being discovered at the age of 14 and painted a picture of what her life will be like in the future.
“I don’t really plan on getting married. I might. I definitely want to be a mother. I don’t really imagine getting married anymore,” Lawrence said. “I don’t feel like I need anything to complete me. I love meeting people, men, women, whatever, I love people coming into your life and bringing something.”
