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Amanda Seyfried feared for her life after dubbing the late Charlie Kirk as “hateful” last year.
In an interview with British GQ, the actress — who sparked backlash for her comments shortly after Kirk’s murder in September 2025 — revealed she hired a bodyguard over safety concerns.
“A, I’m allowed to f—ing voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily,” she told the outlet. “But there’s just an outsized fear and hatred and impulse to bash and to tear down. And I experienced a very small fraction of that.”
ACTRESS AMANDA SEYFRIED SAYS SHE’S ‘NOT F—ING APOLOGIZING’ FOR CHARLIE KIRK POST CALLING HIM HATEFUL
Amanda Seyfried addressed backlash over her comments about Charlie Kirk. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” she continued. “So I’m like, ‘What do I do? What do I say?’ And then all of a sudden I find myself with a f—ing bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’”
After the backlash in September, Seyfried wrote in an Instagram post: “We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity. 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.”
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The “Mean Girls” actress revealed she was forced to hire a bodyguard over safety concerns. (Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)
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“No one should have to experience this level of violence,” she added. “This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”
In her caption to the post, she appeared to address her previous controversy, writing, “I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse- isn’t that what we should be having?”
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Shortly after the backlash, Seyfried doubled down and said she would not apologize for calling Kirk “hateful.”
Speaking with “Who What Wear” in an interview published in December, the “Mean Girls” actress spoke about the backlash she faced but refused to back down from her original comments.
Seyfried previously said she will not apologize for her comments about Kirk. (Getty Images)
“I’m not f—ing apologizing for that,” Seyfried said. “I mean, for f—‘s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course.”
She added how she has to remember to “keep [her] head on” regarding politics.
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“It’s always hard to see people who are tricky and harmful have success — like our gorgeous president, the best possible example of that,” Seyfried said while sitting in a restaurant with her interviewer. “It’s so weird to sit in a civilized restaurant. People are serving us food. You can’t unpack it too much, or else you’ll go f—ing insane. Like, how is the world still spinning?”
In a comment to Fox News Digital at the time, Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said Seyfried is free to say what she wants, but “deserved whatever backlash she gets.”
“Amanda Seyfried obviously knows nothing about who Charlie Kirk actually was. She’s a victim of her own algorithm and echo chamber. But if your reaction to an innocent husband and father being assassinated in cold blood is to pile on and call him ‘hateful’ instead of offering condolences, or just remaining silent — I know wild concept — then you are the hateful one,” Kolvert said.
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Komick contributed to this post.