Jamie Lee Curtis is clearing any confusion regarding her comments about conservative pundit Charlie Kirk following his assassination on Sept. 10.
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Days after Kirk’s shocking death, Curtis spoke out about the situation during her appearance on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” she told Maron. “I disagreed with [Kirk] 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.”
Curis further pointed out that while Kirk’s ideas were “abhorrent” to her, she still believed that he was a father, husband, and a man of faith. “And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.”
The actress faced backlash over her comments, with some critics arguing she was excusing Kirk’s controversial messages.
Jamie Lee Curtis Speaks out About the Backlash Following Her Comments About Charlie Kirk
In a recent interview with Variety, Jamie Lee Curtis addressed the criticism over her comments about Charlie Kirk. She stated that her remarks were “mistranslated.”
“An excerpt of [the conversation] mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well,” she explained. “Like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t. I was simply talking about his faith in God.”
Continuing to clear the air of her comments, Curis said, “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.'”
She then told Variety that she doesn’t set out to be “careful” when it comes to her outspokenness.
“If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you,” she pointed out. “I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”