Laverne Cox is sharing extra particulars about her former “MAGA Republican voter” boyfriend simply days after information of the connection drew backlash from followers.
The Emmy-winning actor, who’s transgender, made the eyebrow-raising remark about her ex whereas selling her forthcoming stay present, “Gurrl, How Did I Get Here?” set to happen in New York subsequent week.
Although Cox didn’t establish the person by title, she described him in a brief Instagram video as “blond-haired, blue-eyed MAGA Republican voter who is a New York City police officer,” later boasting he was 21 years her junior and “hot.”
“We were madly in love,” she mentioned within the clip, posted Monday. “I did not develop any of his politics. I still have my own.”
Cox seems to have beforehand alluded to the connection in interviews the place she spoke a couple of breakup with a former companion who wasn’t “aligned with my values.” Nonetheless, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the “Orange Is the New Black” and “Inventing Anna” actor’s Instagram publish was flooded with unfavorable responses from followers who known as her out for being hypocritical.
“You are able to look past the fact that someone voted against your community and basically everything you represent…?” one particular person wrote. “I don’t get the punch line… nor does this entice me to want to go to a show to figure out how you justify this.”
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Added one other, “Sooooo the morals are dismissed when he’s hot. Got it.”
Cox tried to make clear her feedback in a followup video posted to Instagram Tuesday, noting she hadn’t anticipated the criticism.
“I never adapted any of my ex’s politics,” she defined within the roughly 50-minute clip. “I always challenged him with love and empathy and tried to listen to his perspectives, often corrected him with facts, and I wanted to see if it possible to have a relationship with someone with different political beliefs in theory.”
Although she warned in opposition to “dehumanizing” these with totally different views, she went on to notice, “I think, with this current administration, lines certainly have to be drawn, because we’re fighting for our lives in a different way than we were five years ago.”
“Everything Trump is doing, I’m against,” she mentioned.
Although Cox publicly backed former Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election, her newest feedback about her ex coincide with a brand new interview by which she provided a less-than-complimentary take on Harris’ marketing campaign.
“The way you win an election is turning out the base,” she advised Ts Madison on her “Outlaws” podcast final week. “Trump turned out his base. The white supremacists who hadn’t voted for years, they got up and they got out and the voted. She needed to turn out the base, but she needed to do it with a message that resonated with people that made them feel like she understood what working people are going through.”
