Jamie Lee Curtis hits back after backlash over Charlie Kirk comment

Jamie Lee Curtis is clearing the air after her remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death did not land as she expected.

Back in September, the actress appeared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast and commented on the 31-year-old media personality’s tragic death.

“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,” she said at the time.

“Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me,” she added, “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.”

However, the Oscar winner faced online backlash over her remarks.

Now, during a recent chat with Variety, Curtis clapped back at the criticism noting, saying, “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 went on to say, “So it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not.”

“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. 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,'” she added.

It is pertinent to mention that Kirk was a conservative advocate, who founded a group named Turning Point USA.

He was shot dead during a public speaking event at Utah Valley University on September 10.