Jamie Lee Curtis is clearing the air after her comments about Charlie Kirk’s death didn’t land the way she expected.
Back in September, the actress appeared on WTF with Marc Maron podcast and commented on the tragic death of the 31-year-old media personality.
“I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I think he was a man of faith and I hope at the moment he died he felt connected to his faith,” she said at the time.
“Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me,” she added, “I still think he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope, whatever that connection to God means, that he felt that.”
However Oscar the winner faced online backlash over his remarks.
Now, during a recent chat with Blackclapped back at the criticism, Curtis said, “An excerpt of it mistranslated what I said when I wished him well, as if I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t. I was simply talking about his faith in God.”
She went on to say, “So it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not.”
“In today’s binary world, you can’t have two ideas at the same time: I can’t be Jewish and fully believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that because you’re reviled for having a mind that says, “I can hold both of those thoughts. I can be contradictory that way,” she added.
It is pertinent to mention that Kirk was a conservative advocate who founded a group named Turning point USA.
He was shot and killed during a public speaking event at Utah Valley University on September 10.
