Jamie Lee Curtis finally addresses backlash after 'controversial' Charlie Kirk comments
Topics: Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlie Kirk, Politics, Celebrity, US News
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Topics: Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlie Kirk, Politics, Celebrity, US News
Jamie Lee Curtis has addressed her controversial remarks about Charlie Kirk that she made shortly after the right wing activist's death.
Kirk was fatally shot on September 10 in front of a crowd of people at Utah Valley University (UVU).
He had been addressing the audience when, out of nowhere, he was shot in the neck. Despite the dad-of-two being rushed to hopsital, he ended up succumbing to his injuries.
Kirk's death sparked a national debate in the US because of his controversial views, one being the right to bear arms.
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"I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights," Kirk said back in 2023. "That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
Kirk also spoke extensively about religion and followed the Christian faith, something that many of his followers could relate to.
Jamie Lee Curtis noted his religion when discussing Kirk's death on Marc Maron's WTF podcast in September.
"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," she said of the assassinated 31-year-old.
Curtis continued: "Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. 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."
The actress received some backlash for her remarks though, as some felt she was excusing Kirk's controversial messaging, particularly his views on the LGBTQ+ community, in light of Curtis' daughter being transgender.
The Freakier Friday star has since addressed this and stated that her remarks were a 'mistranslation'.
"An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying 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," Curtis told Variety.
"And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not. 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'."