Amanda Seyfried complains she needed a bodyguard after smearing Charlie Kirk post-assassination

Actress Amanda Seyfried has said that she needed a bodyguard after facing backlash for smearing Charlie Kirk following his assassination.

In a profile published by British GQ, Seyfield reflected on the reaction she received after she described the Turning Point USA founder as “hateful” after his death.

“A, I’m allowed to f*cking voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily,” Seyfried said. “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. I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful. So I’m like, ‘What do I do? What do I say?’ And then all of a sudden I find myself with a f*cking bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’”

Following Kirk’s fatal shooting on September 10 while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, Seyfried commented on his career by writing, “he was hateful.” In a follow-up Instagram post, she clarified her remarks.

“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?” she wrote. “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. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”



The Mean Girls actress doubled down months later in another interview, saying she was “not f*cking apologizing.”

“I mean, for f*ck’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes,” she noted. “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.”