Kristin Chenoweth is reflecting on the backlash he received for his tribute Charlie Kirk after his death in September.
“It was hard for me,” Chenoweth, 57, said The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Monday, November 3. “But I’m not going to answer any questions about it because I got busy with it. It almost broke me, and that’s all I’ll say. You probably know my heart, so you probably do.”
Kirk died at the age of 31 on September 10 after being shot during a talk at Utah Valley University.
Chenoweth reacted to the news of Kirk’s death through the comments section of a March Instagram post by Turning Point USA, the late conservative commentator’s nonprofit organization.
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“I’m. So. Upset. Didn’t always agree, but appreciated some perspectives. What a heartbreak. His young family,” he wrote, referring to Charlie’s wife, Erika Kirkand his two children. “I know where he is now. Sky, but still.”
Chenoweth received a wave of criticism for her comment, especially from members and advocates of the LGBTQ+ community, as Kirk was known to hold anti-LGBTQ+ stances. she later addressed the backlash during an interview with NY1’s Frank DiLella on September 18.
“I saw what happened online with my own eyes. And I had a human moment of reflection,” he said. “I understood that my comment hurt some people and that hurt me a lot. I would never do it. It’s no secret that I’m a Christian, that I’m a person of faith. It’s also no secret that I’m an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and for some, that doesn’t add up. But for me, it always has and always will.”
Chenoweth was far from the only celebrity to comment on Kirk after his death. Amanda Seyfried apparently spoke out against the right-wing political activist on Sept. 16, when she shared a post that read, “You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be surprised when it starts eating.”
Seyfried, 39, later commented in a post about Kirk: “He was obnoxious.”
The bad girls the actress clarified her position via Instagram on September 17.
Charlie Kirk
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images“I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to bring clarity to something so irresponsible (but understandable) out of context,” he wrote. “Speech spirit, isn’t that what we should have? We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity. I can get angry at the misogyny and racist rhetoric, and I ALSO strongly agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing in every way imaginable.”
He continued: “No one should have to suffer this level of violence. This country suffers from too many violent, senseless shootings and deaths. Can we at least agree on that?”
Jamie Lee Curtis also recently had to cclarify the comments he made about Kirk after he got emotional while talking about Kirk’s faith Mark Maronlast month’s “WTF” podcast.
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“I think he was a man of faith, and I hope that at the time he died he felt connected to his faith,” Curtis, 66, said on the podcast after noting that he disagreed with Kirk on “almost every point I heard him make.”
Curtis continued: “Even though I find his ideas repugnant to me, I still think he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope that whatever ‘connection to God’ means, he feels that.”
During an interview on October 28 with varietyCurtis said his comments were “mistranslated.”
“As if I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t, I was simply talking about his faith in God,” he clarified.