After a clip from a resurfaced interview went viral, the actress has explained her misérables vibes BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 16: Anne Hathaway is seen at the “She Came to Me” press conference during the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 16, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images)

Anne Hathaway has reached out to a journalist after a cringeworthy interview from 2012 recently resurfaced, depicting her in a less-than-flattering light.

Speaking to Kjersti Flaa at a Les Miserables press junket, a now-viral clip shows a standoffish Hathaway inexplicably shutting down the reporter. When asked relatively harmless questions like “Do you believe people loved more passionately back then?” and “Do you remember your first crush?” the The Idea of You star bluntly replied, “No.”

Naturally, netizens swarmed to defend Flaa and condemn the actress for her painfully rude responses. But since garnering over 13,000 comments, the journalist shared a moving update.

Catching on to the groundswell of indignation spreading across the net, Hathaway, 41, wrote a personal email to the interviewer, who then shared the response on her Instagram. No details were quoted, but in a video, Flaa gushes over the actress’

“I was pretty shocked,” Flaa begins. “She sent me a long email explaining what she was going through right then when she did this interview, and she apologised for… giving me an awful interview, basically.”

“It was so touching to me,” she continued. “It was a very personal note.”

Flaa then suggested that the two had liaised further, even discussing what the reporter would share with her followers.

“We decided that I wouldn’t share what exactly was in the email,” she said. “But I just wanted to share with you guys what she did.”

Hathaway also invited Flaa to interview her again for her next movie.

Anne Hathaway and Kjersti Flaa via TikTok/@Kjersti Flaa

If Flaa looks familiar, it’s because she initially made headlines in August for being the victim of another celebrity’s dire attitude.

During the rollout of It Ends With Us, a film that garnered global controversy for its co-star conflicts and tone-deaf press circuit, Flaa posted an old interview with Blake Lively that she laments almost spurred her to quit her job.

Though it’s not easy on either end of the press/celebrity interview process, fans were shocked over Lively’s hostility, dubbing her a ‘Mean Girl’ when she was already copping heat for her misguided approach to marketing a film that explores domestic violence.

With Hathaway making amends, it’ll be interesting to see if Lively will follow suit.