Amanda Seyfried claims she was forced to hire a bodyguard after her controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder.
In conversation with British GQ in an interview published on monday, the ‘housemaid’ actress talked about how her description of the conservative political activist as “hateful” His death in a college shooting last fall sparked a major backlash from critics, ultimately causing her to fear for her own safety.
Revisiting the controversy, she told the outlet, “A, I’m allowed to express my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not necessarily unkind.”
“But there is just an excessive fear and hatred and the urge to bash and tear down,” she added. “And I only experienced a very small part of that.”
“I want my children to feel safe to express their opinion, as long as it is not harmful,” Seyfried (40) continued.
“So I thought, ‘What do I do? What do I say?’ And then suddenly I’m standing at the airport with a bodyguard of the king and I think: ‘This is crazy.”, she concluded.
Kirk died afterwards he was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University during a stop on his American Comeback Tour. He was 31.
He and his wife, Erika Kirk, share two children: a daughter who will turn four in August and a two-year-old son.
Like the Kirks, Seyfried shares two children with husband Thomas Sadoski: daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5.
After her first comment about Kirk after his death, Seyfried defended her statement writing on Instagram: “We forget the nuance of humanity.”
“I get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that the murder of Charlie Kirk was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable,” she continued. “No one should have to experience this level of violence.”
She concluded: “This country is mourning too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we at least agree on that?”
Also the Academy Award nominated actress refused to apologize for the social media responses in a December 2025 interview with Who What Wear.
“I mean, for God’s sake, I responded to one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and on actual images and actual quotes,” the “Mean Girls” actress told the outlet.
“What I said was damn factual, and of course I’m free to have an opinion,” she added.
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