Amy Schumer reveals the text Jennifer Lawrence sent her after the Lafayette Trainwreck shooting

'At times like that only jokes make you feel a little better,' Schumer says

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Amy Schumer has revealed it was a joke from Jennifer Lawrence that made her feel better after the shooting at a screening of her film where two people were killed.

In July last year, gunman John Russel Houser, 59, stormed a screening of Schumer’s hit film Trainwreck at a cinema in Lafayette, Louisiana killing two women and injuring nine others before turning the gun on himself.

The 35-year-old discussed the impact of the shooting on her with Lena Dunham and revealed it was a text from Lawrence that cheered her up among the grief.

“[When the theatre shooting happened] it was such a shock and it shouldn’t have been because it happens,” she told Dunham’s newsletter Lenny. “But you know that is actually when I felt the closest to Jennifer Lawrence because that day she texted me, ‘Its your fault’. And in times like that only jokes make you feel a little better.”

Dunham called the text "the greatest worst thing I ever heard."

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Speaking further about the effect the shooting had on her, Schumer said: “Knowing it was my movie, and […] that they went and they bought tickets and wanted to go see this movie, it just crushed me. I felt so powerless and it felt a little bit like something that I had done, that there was a connection to me actually hurting people.”

"[...] I didn't really know how to react. I was so upset. I watched the news that whole night, I was just f***ing f***ed up by it."

Since the shooting Schumer has become an outspoken advocate of tighter gun ownership laws and sat in the front row to watch President Obama give an emotional speech on the issue at the White House in January.

She has also used her comedy as a campaiging mechansim starring in a skit mocking gun enthusiasts on Saturday Night Live.