Amanda Seyfried Won’t Apologize For Calling Charlie Kirk “Hateful”

Amanda Seyfried says she won’t apologize for calling Charlie Kirk “hateful” following his death, standing by her comment in a new interview. The Turning Point USA co-founder was shot and killed earlier this year while speaking at a college campus event in Utah. Seyfried made the comment under an Instagram post discussing the conservative activist's death, where she wrote, “He was hateful.” The actor told Who What Wear, “I’m not f***ing apologizing for that,” insisting that her remark was “based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.” She added that Instagram let her reclaim her voice after feeling it had been “stolen and recontextualized—which is what people do, of course.” In a follow-up post, she clarified that she didn’t “want to add fuel to a fire,” explaining that her original comment was “irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context.” “We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity,” she wrote, stressing that she can condemn “misogyny and racist rhetoric” while also calling Kirk’s murder “disturbing and deplorable.”