Jennifer Lawrence used to pretendEllen DeGeneres was interviewing her when she used the bathroom.- "Pretty much any time it was a No. 2, it was you!" Lawrence told the host on "The Ellen Show."
During Monday's episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she used to pretend she was being interviewed by DeGeneres s a teenager growing up in Kentucky.
DeGeneres spoke to Lawrence over the phone, as the star is currently at home caring for her newborn with husband Cooke Maroney, and Lawrence gave all the details on how she would pretend to do the talk-show circuit before she became famous — while using the bathroom.
"Oprah, obviously. A little bit of Letterman," Lawrence said of the people she would imagine speaking with, referring to Oprah Winfrey and David Letterman.
"But I was really into your show. So pretty much any time it was a No. 2 — it was you!" she told DeGeneres.
Lawrence said she spent her "formative years on the toilet" imagining these scenarios, saying that she primarily did these mock interviews between the ages of 13 and 17.
When asked about what questions she'd imagine answering, she said, "Probably just like, 'How did you get so pretty? You're the prettiest person I've ever seen.' And I'd be like, 'Oh, Ellen. Stop! Oh my God. I'm definitely not the prettiest person you've ever seen.'"
Lawrence also joked that she "manifested hard" on the toilet, adding, "Maybe that's the lesson."
"Take your time, don't rush it," she said.
DeGeneres noted, "And don't think you're just on the toilet for one reason. You can manifest anything when you're there."
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