Hathaway, 33, took to Facebook to lend her support to Lawrence, took home the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical, reported People magazine.
"It's become pretty clear that the Jennifer Lawrence 'scolding' was taken out of context and that she was dryly joking with a journalist who was indeed using his phone to take photos of her.
"Let's not continue the sad but common practise of building people - especially women - up just to viciously tear them down when we perceive them to have misstepped. Jennifer is a beautiful, talented, wildly successful, popular, FOUR TIME OSCAR NOMINATED young woman. Please let us not punish her for these things," she wrote.