Jennifer Lawrence details 2017 emergency plane landing where she thought 'we were all just going to die'
- In 2017 Lawrence was on a private plane that lost both engines and had to make an emergency landing.
- "We were all just going to die," the Oscar-winner told Vanity Fair.
Jennifer Lawrence was on a private plane from her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky going to New York City in 2017 when both engines on the aircraft stopped working.
"My skeleton was all that was left in the seat," Lawrence told Vanity Fair as she looked back on the scary event. "We were all just going to die."
Sitting beside her was a Louisville doctor and on her lap was her dog Pippi. Frozen in her seat the Oscar-winner could hear the pilots in the cockpit in distress as the lifeless plane dipped wildly in the sky.
"I started leaving little mental voicemails to my family, you know, 'I've had a great life, I'm sorry,'" she said.
But in that situation why would Lawrence ever feel she would have to apologize?
"I just felt guilty," Lawrence told Vanity Fair writer Karen Valby. "Everybody was going to be so bummed. And, oh, God, Pippi was on my lap, that was the worst part. Here's this little thing who didn't ask to be a part of any of this."
"I started praying," Lawrence continued. "Not to the specific God I grew up with because he was terrifying and a very judgmental guy. But I thought, 'Oh, my God, maybe we'll survive this? I'll be a burn victim, this will be painful, but maybe we'll live.'"
Lawrence then joked: "'Please, Lord Jesus, let me keep my hair. Wrap me in your hair-loving arms. Please don't let me go bald.'"
The plane found its way to an airport in Buffalo where ambulances and fire engines waited on the runway. The plane did not have a smooth landing, bouncing into the air when it first touched down and then slamming into the ground, Vanity Fair reported.
Rescue crews broke the plane door open and passengers and crew left unscathed.
But Lawrence still had to get to NYC. Thanks to "a very large pill and several mini bottles of rum," the story says, the star boarded another plane to her final destination.
"It made me a lot weaker," Lawrence said of the experience. "Flying is horrific and I have to do it all the time."
Lawrence will next be seen opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the Netflix movie "Don't Look Up," which opens in select theaters on December 10 and on the streaming giant beginning December 24.