Former Sony executive, Amy Pascal, has broken her silence on the hacked email scandal that cost her her job.

During the incident, which was triggered by the release of The Interview and saw Sony staff have their private emails leaked to the world, Amy Pascal was particularly exposed when her emails discussing Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama were leaked.

And now the former co-chairman has spoken publicly about the whole affair, after stepping down from her role six days ago.

Beginning her talk at the Women in the World conference at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, she said '“All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired”.

Chatting to journalist Tina Brown, Amy talked about the moment she realised her private work emails were going to be revealed.

“I ran this company and I had to worry about everybody who was really scared. … People were really scared. … But nagging in the back of my mind, I kept calling [IT] and being like, ‘They don’t have our emails, tell me they don’t have our emails. But then they did. That was a bad moment. And you know what you write in emails.’”

Famously, Amy and producer Scott Rudin's (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network) email exchanges were exposed in November last year, with Scott labelling Angelina Jolie a “minimally talented spoiled brat”.

However, Amy replied that “Angie didn’t care”, reasoning that “everybody understood because we all live in this weird thing called Hollywood”.

“If we were all actually were nice, it wouldn’t work,” she conceded.

‘There is nothing you can do. You can’t say anything’ Sony executive Amy Pascal speaks out on email hack