Jennifer Lawrence has confessed that she is worried people will think she falls over at The Oscars on purpose.

The American Hustle star, who famously took a tumble on her way to the stage to collect her best actress Oscar last year, was snapped tripping up at the event again on Sunday night.

But the 24-year-old actress told Access Hollywood that she's afraid that sceptics will say she's putting it on.

"I'm afraid that like - I got so scared and I hope nobody took a picture, because I'm afraid it's going to start looking like a gimmick," she said.

"I don't know how it happened so fast. I wasn't even at the press yet. But there was a cone outside my car and yeah, I ran over the cone."

She was helped back to her feet by BF and X-Men: Days Of Future Past co-star Nicholas Hoult.

And she admitted she had tried walking up stairs in her new dress, just in case she won, but had neglected to factor cones into her plan.

"This year I actually did a stair test out on the back staircase and got it a little dusty, but it worked," she said.

"But I did trip over a cone, so I guess I'm not safe."