Jennifer Lawrence comes clean about dropping out of school at 14: 'I don't technically have a GED or a diploma'

Jennifer Lawrence has no regrets about dropping out of middle school at 14.

The Oscar winner confirms in an upcoming 60 Minutes that she did in fact leave junior high and never returned -- in contrast to past reports that she had graduated high school.

"I dropped out of middle school," she says point-blank in the special, which airs Sunday. “I don’t technically have a GED or a diploma. I am self-educated.”

The revelation contradicts a 2013 New York Daily News piece about Lawrence's upbringing which claims she "graduated early with a high GPA" from her Kentucky high school.

“What was it you wanted so much?” asks CBS News' Bill Whitaker.

“It’s hard to explain. It’s just an overwhelming feeling of, ‘I get this. This is what I was meant to do,'” Lawrence replies. “And to get people to try to understand that when you’re 14 years old, wanting to drop out of school and do this, and your parents are just like, ‘You’re out of your mind.'”

Does she regret her decision? “No. I really don’t," Lawrence tells Whitaker. "I wanted to forge my own path. I found what I wanted to do, and I didn’t want anything getting in the way of it. Even friends, for many years, were not as important to me as my career, I mean, from the age of 14."