Jamie Lee Curtis is responding to the backlash she received regarding her comments on Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

In a new interview with Variety, the 66-year-old Freakier Friday star claimed an “excerpt” of what she said was “mistranslated,” and it made it sound like she was speaking of him in a “very positive way,” when in fact she was referring more to “his faith in God.”

For context, Jamie was on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast when she brought up Charlie‘s death and said, “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 with his faith. Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. 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.”

While speaking with Variety, she said, “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.”

People were particularly critical of Jamie‘s initial sentiment as Charlie was openly against transgender rights. The actress herself has a trans daughter, Ruby, and has always advocated for LGBTQ rights.

She continued, “And 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.’”

Source - Just Jared