--- title: Jennifer Lawrence Responds to Austria Dance Video description: Jennifer Lawrence won't apologize for dancing at the club after footage of her at a birthday party leaked online. canonical: https://time.com/4782990/jennifer-lawrence-on-dancing-club/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T19:21:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:43.522Z og:title: Jennifer Lawrence Isn't Sorry for Letting Loose at the Club og:description: "I'm not going to apologize, I had a BLAST that night" og:url: https://time.com/4782990/jennifer-lawrence-on-dancing-club/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc7d9e9f47ef565/6988c0bea988ca76a66bb8c6/jennifer-lawrence-dior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4160 og:image:height: 2340 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Columbia Pictures' "Passengers" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Lawrence Isn't Sorry for Letting Loose at the Club twitter:description: "I'm not going to apologize, I had a BLAST that night" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dc7d9e9f47ef565/6988c0bea988ca76a66bb8c6/jennifer-lawrence-dior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Lawrence Is Decidedly Not Sorry For Having Fun at the Club > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 17, 2017 7:21 PM UTC  WESTWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 14: Actress Jennifer Lawrence attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures' "Passengers" at Regency Village Theatre on December 14, 2016 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) WESTWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 14: Actress Jennifer Lawrence attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures' "Passengers" at Regency Village Theatre on December 14, 2016 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 17, 2017 7:21 PM UTC [Jennifer Lawrence](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/jennifer-lawrence/) is known for her candor and [she spared no bluntness](http://motto.time.com/4566491/jennifer-lawrence-article-trump/) when addressing a recently video of her pole-dancing that surfaced of her at a strip club establishment in Austria. In a [post published on J-Law’s Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLawrence/posts/10154372697786793) on Wednesday, the Oscar winning actor explained that she was celebrating the birthday of a close friend and that she was just having fun. “Look, nobody wants to be reminded that they tried to dance on a stripper pole by the internet,” she wrote. “It was one of my best friend’s birthdays and I dropped my paranoia guard for one second to have fun. I’m not going to apologize, I had a BLAST that night.” _The Hunger Games_ star also used her Facebook post to clear up any confusion when it came to her wardrobe that night, noting that her top was an Alexander Wang top, closing with a modest admission that she thought her dancing was “pretty good. 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