Amanda Seyfried claims she was forced to hire a bodyguard after her controversial remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Speaking to British GQ in an interview published Monday, the “Housemaid” actress shared how her description of conservative political activist as “hateful” after his shooting death at a university last fall sparked a backlash from critics, eventually leading her to fear for her own safety.
Revisiting the controversy, she told the outlet, “A, I’m allowed to express my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not necessarily unkind.”
“But there’s just an overall fear and hatred and impulse to strike and tear down,” she added. “And I experienced a very small fraction of that.”
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe expressing their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” Seyfried, 40, continued.
“So I’m like, ‘What am I going to do? What am I going to say?’ And then suddenly I’m standing with an ex-king’s bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘This is crazy,’” she concluded.
Kirk died after he was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University during a stop on his American comeback tour. He was 31.
He and his wife, Erika Kirk, shared two children — a daughter who turns 4 in August and a 2-year-old son.
Like Kirk, Seyfried shares two children with husband Thomas Sadoski — daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5.
After her first comment about Kirk after his death, Seyfried defended her statement writing on Instagram, “We forget the nuance of humanity.”
“I can get angry at misogynistic and racist rhetoric and ALSO strongly agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable,” she continued. “No one should have to experience this level of violence.”
She concluded: “This country is causing a lot of senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we at least agree on that?”
The Oscar-nominated actress too refused to apologize for the social media comments in a December 2025 interview with Who What Wear.
“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,” the “Mean Girls” actress told the outlet.
“What I said was pretty factual and of course I’m free to have an opinion,” she added.
