Jamie Lee Curtis is making an attempt to make clear herself.
The “Halloween” star opened as much as Selection in an interview printed Tuesday about some controversial remarks she made within the wake of Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk’s dying.
Shortly after the right-wing activist was killed final month, the actor received emotional throughout a podcast interview.
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“I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith,” Curtis mentioned whereas sobbing on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast.
“Even though … his ideas were abhorrent to me,” she continued. “I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.”
Being that the “True Lies” star has largely expressed liberal views all through her lengthy profession, Curtis’ followers who have been important of Kirk’s activism have been fairly outraged. Particularly since Curtis’ daughter, Ruby Visitor, is trans. Kirk was an unapologetic peddler of transphobia.
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Curtis informed Selection that the backlash she obtained for her statements about Kirk was “threatening.”
“An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying,” Curtis mentioned of the feedback she made on a podcast. “As I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God.”
“And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not,” she continued. “In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way.’”
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When Trish Deitch, the journalist who was interviewing Curtis for Selection, recommended to Curtis that she could need to be “careful” along with her phrases as a public determine, Curtis seemingly turned indignant.
“I don’t have to be careful,” she sharply informed Deitch. “If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you. I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”
This isn’t the primary time Curtis’ public knee-jerk reactions have been met with controversy.
In 2023, shortly after the Oct. 7 assaults, Curtis mistakenly used a photograph of Palestinian kids fleeing from bombs to indicate her help for Israel.
After receiving backlash, Curtis’ representatives issued a press release to HuffPost, saying: “I took down the post when I realized my error. … It’s an awful situation for all the innocent people in the line of fire.”
