Actress Amanda Seyfried has refused to apologize for calling the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk “hateful” in an Instagram post shortly after he was murdered last September.
The “Mean Girls” actress participated in an interview with “Who What Wear” on Wednesday in which she discussed the backlash she received after her comments, refusing to walk them back. Seyfried had said in a post that Kirk was hateful and that “You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating.”
“I’m not f***ing apologizing for that,” Seyfried said. “I mean, for f***’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course.”
“It’s always hard to see people who are tricky and harmful have success — like our gorgeous president, the best possible example of that,” Seyfried added. “It’s so weird to sit in a civilized restaurant. People are serving us food. You can’t unpack it too much, or else you’ll go f***ing insane. Like, how is the world still spinning?”
After she received backlash in September, Seyfried posted again, “We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity. I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable.”
TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet responded to Seyfried’s comments, saying she is free to speak her mind but “deserved whatever backlash she gets.”
“Amanda Seyfried obviously knows nothing about who Charlie Kirk actually was. She’s a victim of her own algorithm and echo chamber. But if your reaction to an innocent husband and father being assassinated in cold blood is to pile on and call him ‘hateful’ instead of offering condolences, or just remaining silent — I know wild concept — then you are the hateful one,” Kolvet stated.
