Megyn Kelly slams Jamie Lee Curtis over Charlie Kirk comments, accusing her of twisting the truth.NH
Jamie Lee Curtis‘ Charlie Kirk saga continues, with Megyn Kelly the latest to leap into the ring.
The former Fox News personality blasted Curtis for clarifying a set of comments regarding the conservative activist’s killing on Wednesday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show.
“We gave her credit at the time because, even though she has a trans kid, and recognized Charlie didn’t — he was where I am on the trans issues — she recognized a man had been killed,” Kelly began.
Curtis got teary-eyed during an interview on the WTF podcast that was released five days after Kirk was shot during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in September.
“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,” Curtis said at the time. But she later clarified that her comments were “mistranslated” to imply “I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God.”
Kelly brought down the hammer when discussing Curtis’ second statement.
“That is completely dishonest. She walked this back because she clearly got blowback over it,” she said, warning that Curtis’ clarification “actively endangers those of us who are on the right and who are out here speaking to crowds and keep this conversation going.”
In her most recent set of comments, Curtis elaborated that she feels hamstrung by “the binary world today,” in which “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.”
Curtis then disavowed the notion that she needs to watch her words as a public figure, saying, “I don’t have to be careful…. I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”
But Kelly didn’t buy it. “If she really were this fearless person who would say anything — the consequences be damned,” the controversial podcaster insisted, “she wouldn’t feel such an urge to make sure people knew she was ‘mistranslated’ into people thinking that she wished him well, which she very much wants us to know she did not.”
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Curtis and Kirk were indeed to be found on opposite ends of virtually every hot-button cultural issue on which the latter made his name as a debater and provocateur.
The actress has been a lifelong supporter of liberal and progressive causes, from transgender rights to electing more women to political office. Kirk, meanwhile, described the trans community as a “contagion” during his lifetime, and accused Black women like Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson of being “affirmative action picks.”
But Kelly’s pushback isn’t likely to stop Curtis — a Hollywood icon even from her birth to parents Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis — from speaking her mind.
