Amanda Seyfried feared for her life after dubbing the late Charlie Kirk as "hateful" last year. In an interview with British GQ, the actress — who sparked backlash for her comments shortly after Kirk's murder in September 2025 — revealed she hired a bodyguard over safety concerns."A, I’m allowed to f---ing voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily," she told the outlet."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."ACTRESS AMANDA SEYFRIED SAYS SHE'S ‘NOT F---ING APOLOGIZING’ FOR CHARLIE KIRK POST CALLING HIM HATEFULAmanda Seyfried addressed backlash over her comments about Charlie Kirk. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)"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.’"After the backlash in September, Seyfried wrote in an Instagram post: "We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity.
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."LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSThe "Mean Girls" actress revealed she was forced to hire a bodyguard over safety concerns. (Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)MAHER BLASTS HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS FOR NOT ACKNOWLEDGING CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION AT THE EMMYS"No one should have to experience this level of violence," she added."This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings.
Can we agree on that at least?"In her caption to the post, she appeared to address her previous controversy, writing, "I don’t want to add fuel to a fire.I just want to be able to give clari...