Amanda Seyfried Refused to Apologize for Charlie Kirk Comment to Teach Her Kids a Lesson
After Charlie Kirk’s murder in 2025, Amanda Seyfried made a comment about his rhetoric on Instagram. She immediately faced a flood of hateful comments from his supporters. Seyfried said that she stands by her remark and won’t apologize for it. Still, she said that the reaction to it was so frightening that she had to hire a bodyguard.
Amanda Seyfried posted about Charlie Kirk after his death
After Kirk’s death, discussions of his legacy on social media immediately grew contentious. An Instagram user shared a reel of some of his most shocking statements, prompting Seyfried to comment: “He was hateful.”
Backlash was swift, and Seyfried later clarified her remark in another Instagram post. She noted that her comment had been “irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context.”
“We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity,” Seyfried wrote. “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. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?”
Later, she told Who What Wear that she had no plans to apologize for her remarks.
“I’m not f***ing apologising for that… what I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course.”
Amanda Seyfried said she had to hire a bodyguard after her comment about Charlie Kirk
Seyfried stands behind her opinion despite the backlash she faced for it.
“A, I’m allowed to f***ing voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily,” she told British GQ. “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.”
She said that she stood behind her comments because she wanted to set an example for her children to feel comfortable sharing their opinions. Still, the response was frightening.
“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful,” she said. “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.’”
She has two children
Seyfried shares two children with her husband, Thomas Sadoski. They welcomed a daughter named Nina in 2017 and a son named Thomas in 2020. After giving birth to her daughter, Seyfried decided to become a doula.
“I was like, this is the most amazing thing I’ve ever been a part of. I have to be there for women; childbirth is amazing,” she told Marie Claire. “I was talking to my doula a lot about what she did. I was like, ‘That sounds like the best thing,’ and I just wanted to be there when people have a baby.”
The family lives on a farm in the Hudson Valley.
