Jamie Lee Curtis recently spoke further on her remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death, which generated some controversy in September. The divisive comments left some fans of the actress confused, and Curtis recently explained what she experienced when she commented on Kirk’s death.
Jamie Lee Curtis on why she won’t be ‘careful’ after Charlie Kirk comments backlash
Jamie Lee Curtis previously said on the WTF podcast on September 15, 2025, that Kirk was a “man of faith,” and mourned his death.
However, this generated divisive reactions among her fans. She told Variety in a recent interview that fans “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.”
Despite the confusion that followed, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star noted that her comment was more nuanced than what many of her fans interpreted. She explained, “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.'”
Following this, she was asked if she felt the need to be “careful” as a public figure. Curtis responded, “I don’t have to be careful,…If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you. I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.
