Amanda Seyfried has whined that she was forced to hire a bodyguard after she implied that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was inevitable.
Kirk, the founder of the right-wing group Turning Point USA, was gunned down at Utah Valley University on September 10, in what authorities described as a politically motivated attack.
Days later, the Housemaid actress, 40, reshared a meme that read: ‘You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating.’ She also commented on a separate text post, describing Kirk as ‘hateful.’
Social media erupted with fury at her reaction to the crime, but Seyfried refused to apologize for her remarks.
In a recent interview with British GQ, Seyfried revealed she was shocked by the backlash she received, and complained she was forced to hire a bodyguard in the aftermath.
‘A, I’m allowed to f*****g voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily. 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.
‘I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful.’
Seyfried 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*****g bodyguard at the airport, and I’m like, “This is crazy.”
Amanda Seyfried revealed she was forced to hire a bodyguard after implying that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was inevitable
Kirk, the founder of the right-wing group Turning Point USA, was gunned down at Utah Valley University on September 10
Seyfried addressed the blowback to her remarks on Kirk’s death in a subsequent statement, but never apologized.
‘We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity,’ she wrote in a text post on her Instagram. ‘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.’
She continued: ‘This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?’
In her caption, she added: ‘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?’
Seyfried faced a livid response from Kirk’s admirers for her initial comments, which were posted in reaction to his murder and the subsequent outpouring of grief.
Later, she doubled-down, telling Who What Wear: ‘I’m not f**king apologizing for that. I mean, for f**k’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.
She also claimed that being able to address the blowback on Instagram allowed her to get her ‘voice back.’
‘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,’ Seyfried said.
Seyfried reshared a meme that read: ‘You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating’
Social media erupted with fury at her reaction to the crime, but Seyfried refused to apologize for her remarks
More than 600 Americans were fired from their jobs over their negative reactions to Kirk’s murder
After the assassination, reams of social media posts went viral celebrating Kirk’s death at the hands of the suspected gunman, Tyler Robinson, 23.
In fact, more than 600 Americans were fired from their jobs over their negative reactions to Kirk’s murder, according to a November 2025 Reuters investigation.
Many of those terminations subsequently sparked a flurry of lawsuits, all claiming their firings violated their First Amendment rights.
A number of the legal filings, including one by a biologist and former cop, have resulted in eye-watering payouts.
Meanwhile, Robinson is slated for his first major hearing next month, where his lawyers are working to help him avoid the death penalty.
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