Amanda Seyfried has opened up about the intense period that followed her comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year.
Shortly after an assassin murdered Kirk in September 2025, Seyfried commented on an Instagram Reel montage of the Turning Point USA founder’s most controversial statements, writing: “He was hateful.”
After receiving backlash from Kirk’s supporters, Seyfried clarified in a separate Instagram post: “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.”
In a new interview with British GQ, Seyfried revealed she had to hire a bodyguard in the wake of the furor.
“A, I’m allowed to f***ing 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,” The Housemaid star said.
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” she continued. “So I’m like, ‘What do I do? What do I say?’ And then all of a sudden I find myself with a f***ing bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’”
Seyfried previously doubled down on her criticism of Kirk in a November 2025 interview with Who What Wear. “I’m not fucking apologizing for that… what I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course,” she said.
The Mamma Mia star added that she felt her statement had been taken out of context.
“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,” she told the fashion publication.
Kirk, 31, was shot dead by a sniper on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10 last year.
He was the father of two children, a son and a daughter, whom he shared with his wife, Erika Kirk, who has since succeeded him as TPUSA CEO.
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah resident accused of killing the MAGA commentator, has been charged with aggravated murder. He faces multiple charges in the case, including felony discharge of a firearm, witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child.
