Amanda Seyfried has made her feelings clear about her previous comments on Charlie Kirk. The Mean Girls star said that she is not “f**king apologizing” for calling Kirk “hateful,” despite the backlash she received online. She doubled down on her stance in a recent interview.
Amanda Seyfried won’t apologize for controversial comments
Amanda Seyfried, who incurred backlash after her post in September, said in a recent interview that she would not apologize for her earlier comments on Charlie Kirk following the conservative activist’s assassination.
Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a TPUSA debate event at Utah Valley University. His death received international attention and brought renewed focus to the issue of political violence.
The 40-year-old actress told Who What Wear in a recent interview that she is “not fking apologizing” for her earlier comments. “I mean, for fks sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage, and actual quotes,” she said in the interview. “What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course.”
Seyfried initially posted a series of quotes by Kirk on his views about abortion, immigration, and Black people on her Instagram, and wrote, “He was hateful,” following his death. The post quickly gained traction, and Seyfried faced pushback. Many accused her of justifying Kirk’s murder.
She made a second post soon after and clarified that there was a distinction between condemning a person’s rhetoric and the act of violence that ended Kirk’s life. “We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity,” she wrote on Instagram. “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.”
Amanda Seyfried continues to maintain her stance on Kirk.
The actress will appear alongside Sydney Sweeney in Paul Feig’s The Housemaid, which premieres in the United States on December 19, 2025.
