When actress Jamie Lee Curtis called conservative activist Charlie Kirk a man of faith, her words were ā€œmistranslatedā€ into something she did not mean.

Curtis clarified the statement she made following Kirk’s Assassination in September,ā€ NewsNation reported.

Curtis was on the ā€œWTF with Marc Maronā€ podcast, two days after Kirk was murdered. She said that while she disagreed with Kirk, she lauded him for being a man of faith.

ā€œI’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,ā€ Curtis said. ā€œI 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.ā€

ā€œEven 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,ā€ she continued.

In an interview with Variety published Tuesday, Curtis said her words were ā€œmistranslated.ā€

ā€œAn 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,ā€ she told Variety.

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ā€œIn 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,ā€ she added.

ā€œYou can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ā€˜I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way,ā€™ā€ 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.