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Leave it to Hollywood to step in it and then try to wipe it away with a press release. Actress Amanda Seyfried, best known for her role in the 2004 teen flick Mean Girls and soon to grace screens in The Housemaid, found herself in hot water after comments about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Now she's scrambling to clarify, claiming her words were "taken out of context."
Aren't they all when leftists are held accountable?
Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was gunned down on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He leaves behind a wife and two young daughters.
Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was gunned down on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He leaves behind a wife and two young daughters.
While conservatives and even some liberals hailed him as a free-speech warrior, others, apparently including Seyfried, seemed to think his rhetoric was an open invitation to violence. Screenshots making the rounds online show her calling Kirk "hateful" on Instagram and sharing a post that snarked, "You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating." Ouch.
Cue the backlash, and Seyfried's now singing a different tune. In a public post, she tried to thread the needle: "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." She went on, "No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?"
In her caption, she played the victim card: "I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse- isn’t that what we should be having?" Spirited discourse, huh? Funny how that only becomes the goal after you've been called out.
Meanwhile, at Utah Valley University, where Kirk was killed, locals and students paid their respects at a memorial on September 15, 2025, showing the kind of class Seyfried might want to take notes on. Her attempt at damage control might convince her Hollywood pals, but on X, where the screenshots don't lie, the jury is still out on whether this was a genuine clarification or just a celebrity dodging accountability.
Cue the backlash, and Seyfried's now singing a different tune. In a public post, she tried to thread the needle: "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." She went on, "No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?"
In her caption, she played the victim card: "I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse- isn’t that what we should be having?" Spirited discourse, huh? Funny how that only becomes the goal after you've been called out.
Meanwhile, at Utah Valley University, where Kirk was killed, locals and students paid their respects at a memorial on September 15, 2025, showing the kind of class Seyfried might want to take notes on. Her attempt at damage control might convince her Hollywood pals, but on X, where the screenshots don't lie, the jury is still out on whether this was a genuine clarification or just a celebrity dodging accountability.
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