Jennifer Lawrence Takes Jab at Mike Pence in GLAAD Media Awards Speech [Video]

Jennifer Lawrence called out former Vice President Mike Pence at the GLAAD Media Awards.

While presenting the Vito Russo Award to musician Orville Peck on Saturday, May 11, in New York City, the Oscar-winning actress said, “I love the gay community. In fact, I was in love with a homosexual. He was my first love.”

“I tried to convert him for years, but now I know conversion therapy doesn’t work. Did you hear me, Mike Pence? I said conversion therapy isn’t real,” she continued, cupping her mouth for effect.

“Even though I know you think it worked on you,” joked Lawrence, 33.

A rep for Pence, 64, did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

In a January 2018 statement, Pence’s press secretary at the time, Alyssa Farah Griffin (now a co-host on The View), said the then-vice president does not and has never supported the concept of “conversion therapy.” “The accusation is totally false …