“I don’t want to add fuel to a fire,” Amanda Seyfried wrote in a Wednesday statement on Instagram.
Amanda Seyfried reminded people of the difference between disagreeing with someone and wishing them harm as she issued a statement defending an Instagram comment she made criticizing Charlie Kirk after he was killed.
The star faced significant blowback after responding to an Instagram video highlighting some of Kirk’s most extreme public statements and social media posts.
It included multiple remarks denigrating Black women, villainizing immigrants and trans people, denouncing birth control and one where Kirk dismissed the entire concept of “empathy.”
Amanda Seyfried attends at photocall for “The Testament Of Ann Lee” photocall at the 2025 Venice Film Festival on September 1.
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Among the video’s 16,000 comments was one from Seyfried that said, “He was hateful.”
On Wednesday, the “Jennifer’s Body” actor issued a statement on Instagram.
“We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity,” the Instagram text post began. “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,” it went on. “This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”
Continuing her commentary in the caption, the “Mamma Mia” star wrote, “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?”
Kirk was shot and killed last Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University.
The suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, was taken into police custody two days later and charged with aggravated murder and several related offenses during a Tuesday court hearing.
Charging documents include texts Robinson allegedly sent to his roommate following Kirk’s assassination. One read, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
