When actress Jamie Lee Curtis called conservative activist Charlie Kirk a man of faith, her words were “mistranslated” into something she did not mean.
Curtis clarified the statement she made following Kirk’s assassination in September,” NewsNation reported.
Curtis was on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, two days after Kirk was murdered. She said that while she disagreed with Kirk, she lauded him for being a man of faith.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis said. “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died that he felt connected to his faith.”
“Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it,” she continued.
In an interview with Variety published Tuesday, Curtis said her words were “mistranslated.”
“An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well, like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t. I was simply talking about his faith in God,” she told Variety.
“In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza,” she added.
“You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way,’” Curtis said.
The death of the Turning Point USA founder has been a hot-button topic since Sept. 10 when he was gunned down during a campus event in Utah.
Many who have criticized him have face professional consequences such as being fired over comments on social media.
