Amanda Seyfried says the fallout from calling Charlie Kirk “hateful” got so intense that she suddenly found herself moving through an airport with security.
In British GQ, the “Mean Girls” star looked back on the backlash that followed her September 2025 post after Kirk’s assassination at a Utah campus event.
Seyfried said the reaction left her weighing how much public opinion should cost a person once threats and fear enter the picture.
“A, I’m allowed to f—ing voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily,” she commented.
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“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.”
She said the episode also forced her to think about what kind of example she wanted to set for her children.
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” she added. “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.’”
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Her original comment came under a compilation clip that claimed to highlight Kirk’s past rhetoric. “He was hateful,” she wrote at the time.
The comment spread quickly, and Seyfried later tried to draw a line between condemning Kirk’s murder and criticizing the politics she believed he promoted.
Amanda Seyfried had to use a bodyguard amid MAGA outrage over calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after his death.
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“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 wrote on Instagram.
“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 the caption, Seyfried appeared to argue that her earlier remark had been ripped away from its intended meaning.
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“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?”
The apology never came. By December, she was still refusing to retreat from the remark during a “Who What Wear” interview.
“I’m not f—ing apologizing for that,” Seyfried told the outlet. “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.”
Her political comments did not stop with Kirk. The actress also described the emotional strain of watching people she views as harmful succeed, turning the conversation toward President Donald Trump.
“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 continued.
“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?”
That same month, the actress used a Variety podcast appearance to explain why she viewed socialism in moral terms rather than as a political insult.
“We’re kicking our own out, and then, I keep thinking, thank God we’re talking about Ann Lee so much, because there’s a direct relationship to what she created and what we’re lacking,” Seyfried remarked.
“How about we all don’t have any kind of agendas? How about our agenda is take care of each other? Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know it doesn’t work perfectly.”
When host Michael Schneider said many people do not understand the word, Seyfried reduced it to a simple obligation.
“For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people. Isn’t that right?” Seyfried added.
Schneider then brought up the unity many Americans felt after 9/11, and Seyfried agreed.
“Everybody dropped everything for each other. People sacrificed their lives without a thought in the world.”
“And we shouldn’t have to have a meteor or a house-on-fire situation in order to drop everything for each other. That’s just what we are as human beings,” she added.
Kirk’s death has also reshaped private decisions far from Hollywood. Far from the Hollywood backlash, Vice President JD Vance said Kirk’s killing helped push his family toward another baby.
During a conversation pegged to his book “Communion,” Vance described years of private back-and-forth over whether he and Usha should expand their family again.
The decision took on new weight after Vance changed his Sept. 11 plans and went to Utah to accompany Kirk’s body back to Arizona with Erika Kirk and the family.
He told Stuckey that the grief on that trip changed the way he thought about having another baby.
“What could possibly be said? You want to say something profound; there is nothing to say.”
According to Vance, Erika Kirk eventually made an observation through tears that stayed with him.
“We talked with Erika for a while, of course about Charlie, and then she makes the observation through her tears that she wishes they would have had more kids,” Vance recalled.
“For me at least that’s what really drove it home. I don’t know if it had the same effect on Usha, but Usha’s much more analytical about this stuff and was getting there in her own way, but for me it was like we have to have a fourth baby and she got pregnant like six weeks later.”
Meanwhile, the criminal case against Kirk’s accused killer continues moving forward.
In court Monday, defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson lost a bid to force Lance Twiggs to appear live at next month’s preliminary hearing.
Robinson, 23, faces felony aggravated murder and other charges tied to Kirk’s shooting during a Utah Valley University campus debate in Orem.
State District Judge Tony Graf Jr. sided with prosecutors and quashed the subpoena.
Prosecutors instead plan to rely on a recorded interview in which Twiggs allegedly described a confession, a hidden weapon, discarded clothing and a warning not to contact law enforcement.
Graf also noted that prosecutors intend to use a handwritten note, text messages and other evidence.