The “Mean Girls” actress experienced intense backlash after branding the slain conservative political activist as “hateful.”The “Mean Girls” actress experienced intense backlash after branding the slain conservative political activist as “hateful.”
Amanda Seyfried claims she was forced to hire a bodyguard after her controversial remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Speaking to British GQ in an interview published Monday, the “Housemaid” actress related how her description of the conservative political activist as “hateful” following his shooting death at a university last fall sparked a major response from critics, causing her to eventually fear for her own safety.
Revisiting the controversy, she told the outlet, “A, I’m allowed to f–king voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily.”
“But there’s just an outsized fear and hatred and impulse to bash and to tear down,” she added. “And I experienced a very small fraction of that.”
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” Seyfried, 40, 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–king bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’” she concluded.
Kirk died after 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, shared two children — a daughter who will be turning 4 in August and a 2-year-old son.
Like the Kirks, Seyfried shares two children with husband Thomas Sadoski — daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5.
After her initial comment about Kirk following his death, Seyfried defended her statement by writing on Instagram, “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,” she continued. “No one should have to experience this level of violence.”
She concluded: “This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”
The Academy Award-nominated actress also refused to apologize for the social media comments in a December 2025 interview with Who What Wear.
“I mean, for f–ks sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes,” the “Mean Girls” actress told the outlet.
“What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course,” she added.
