Anne Hathaway poses with her Oscar for best actress in a supporting role in 2013.

She picked up the award for her role as prostitute Fantine in Les Miserables, a demanding role that required her to lose weight and cut her hair. And in the process, she had hit a wall.

“I felt very uncomfortable,” Hathaway told the Guardian of what should have been a special night. “I kind of lost my mind doing that movie and it hadn’t come back yet.

“I had to stand up in front of people and feel something I don’t feel, which is uncomplicated happiness.

“It’s an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you’re supposed to be happy. I didn’t feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings.”

Hathaway was also dealing with intense public backlash. At the time, she had become someone the public loved to hate and “Hathahate” swept the media. And she says the Oscar didn’t help.

“I tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time,” she said. “That’s the truth and that’s what happened. It sucks. But what you learn from it is that you only feel like you can die from embarrassment, you don’t actually die.”

Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway at the 2013 Academy Awards.Source:AP