Amanda Seyfried says she needed to rent a bodyguard after she made controversial remark about Charlie Kirk

Following his demise final yr, Amanda Seyfried was underneath scrutiny for a remark she made about Charlie Kirk.

The proper-wing activist was fatally shot on 10 September whereas talking at a college occasion. And his homicide sparked a divisive rhetoric.

On Instagram, a Reel pulled collectively a few of Kirk’s controversial and arguably terrible statements and Seyfried left a remark which made her emotions about them clear.

“He was hateful,” the Housemaid actor wrote. Nevertheless, some interpreted this as her emotions about his homicide, kicking off an enormous backlash from his supporters.

And now Seyfried has stated she ended up having to rent a bodyguard for security.

She had posted a press release on Instagram nearer to the time to make clear: “I can get indignant about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very a lot agree that Charlie Kirk’s homicide was completely disturbing and deplorable in each manner conceivable.”

And doubled-down in an interview with Who What Wear as she stated of the remark: “I’m not f**king apologising for that… what I stated was fairly rattling factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, after all.”

Months and months later now, Seyfried remains to be in disbelief over all of it along with her remarks nonetheless continued to be mentioned and criticised.

In a brand new interview with British GQ yesterday (15 June), the Mamma Mia! actor stated: “A, I’m allowed to f**king voice my emotions, and B, do it in a manner that’s not unkind essentially.

“However there’s simply an outsized worry and hatred and impulse to bash and to tear down. And I skilled a really small fraction of that.”

Seyfried went on to say that she desires her children to ‘really feel protected to voice their opinions so long as they’re not dangerous’. The star shares two youngsters, Nina, 9, and Thomas, 5, with husband Thomas Sadoski.

“So I’m like, ‘What do I do? What do I say?’” she continued.

“After which hastily I discover myself with a f**king bodyguard on the airport and I’m like, ‘That is loopy.’”

Again in December, Seyfried had stated she was grateful for having social media as a result of it gave her an opportunity to talk out on the backlash over her remark.

“Thank God for Instagram,” she advised Who What Put on. I used to be in a position to give some readability, and it was about getting my voice again as a result of I felt prefer it had been stolen and recontextualised — which is what folks do, after all.”

The star stated folks have been forgetting the ‘nuance of humanity’ as she obtained threatening and intense backlash for calling Kirk’s feedback ‘hateful’.