Golden Globe Awards: Michelle Williams praised for women’s rights speech

The 39-year-old made the comments, which alluded to abortion, after picking up one of the acting awards.

“I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose,” she said. “To choose when to have my children, and with whom.”

But she came in for criticism from anti-abortion commentators in the US.

The four-time Oscar nominee won the Golden Globe for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in drama series Fosse/Verdon.

“I am grateful to live in a moment in our society where choice exists, because as girls and women, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,” she told the ceremony.

“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I carved with my own hand.”

The four-time Oscar nominee won the Golden Globe for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in drama series Fosse/Verdon.

“I am grateful to live in a moment in our society where choice exists, because as girls and women, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,” she told the ceremony.

“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I carved with my own hand.”