Amanda Seyfried doubled down on her comments against Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, saying that she is “free to have an opinion” and is “not f–king apologizing” after calling the conservative youth organizer “hateful” shortly after his assassination in September.
“I’m not f–king apologizing for that. I mean, for f–k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes,” the Oscar nominee and star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” said in a “Who What Wear” interview published Wednesday. “What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course.”
She added of her Sept. 16 Instagram comments that she appreciated the opportunity to clarify on social media a few days later what she meant by writing, “He was hateful.”
“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 re-contextualized — which is what people do.”
After her first Instagram comment back in September about Kirk, Seyfried clarified her statements about the conservative voice. She explained that her comments came from a “nuance of humanity.”
“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,” she added in September. “Spirited discourse — isn’t that what we should be having?”
She continued: “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 in every way imaginable. 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?”
Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. Tyler Robinson was later charged with the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination. Kirk is survived by his wife Erika and their two children.
