In a new interview with Vanity Fair published this week, Jennifer Lawrence has attacked celebrity blogger Perez Hilton for posting hacked nude photos on his website.

After hackers accessed the iCloud accounts of Lawrence and tens of other celebrities, and posted private and often explicit images of them on the website 4chan, Hilton reposted the images. He later took them down and apologised, saying on Twitter: “At work we often have to make quick decisions. I made a really bad one today and then made it worse. I feel awful and am truly sorry.” He also posted a video apology, saying: “A lot of you let me know that my actions were wrong. I didn’t even stop to think about my actions.”

Lawrence told Vanity Fair: “He took it down because people got pissed, and that’s the only reason why. And then I had to watch his apology. And what he basically said was, ‘I just didn’t think about it.’ ‘I just didn’t think about it’ is not an excuse. That is the exact issue itself.”

She also made an overture to the more salacious and gossipy corners of the internet, where Hilton resides: “You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good.”

In other previously published statements, Lawrence was strident in her denunciation of the hackers and viewers of the images. She referred to the hack as a “sex crime”, and that “anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offence. You should cower with shame.”

Elsewhere in the candid interview, she discusses wanting “peaceful” rather than “passionate” romantic relationships, and following a question about the death of her Hunger Games co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman, she replies: “Death is a terrible thing that should be respected … for somebody to say that they’re not afraid of death makes me want to punch them in the fucking face. Because when you’re touched by death, you realise how powerful it is.”