Selma Blair says no one returned my calls after anti-Islam comment led to Hollywood fallout

Actress Selma Blair said “no one returned my calls” after an anti-Islam Instagram comment she posted during the Israel-Hamas war in February 2024 cost her representation, brand deals and friendships.Her remarks come more than two years after Blair attacked then-Rep.Cori Bush, D-Mo., and current Rep.

Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., in a now-deleted comment over their votes against legislation that would bar people involved in the Oct.7 Hamas attack on Israel from entering the United States.“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons,” Blair’s reply to a post made by immigration reform advocate Abraham Hamra said in part, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds.

They know they are liars.Twisted justifications.

May they meet their fate.”Although Blair apologized shortly after the comment drew backlash, she said she lost friends, brand deals and payment connected to a Super Bowl advertisement in the fallout.“The brands I worked with were gone within a day,” Blair said at the Anti-Defamation League’s State of the Arts reception at The Jewish Museum in New York Thursday.“A few partnerships I’d spent years building were shelved.My agency was gone.

My lawyer was gone.My publicist was gone.

My book agent was gone.My book publicist was gone.

My social media manager was gone,” she continued. “No one returned my calls.”Blair said she apologized “right away” for a February 2024 online comment and refused to let it define her.She added that she has rebuilt her career since her multiple sclerosis diagnosis and is “not up here for sympathy.”Referring to the apology, Blair added, “I meant it then, and I mean it now, and I’m leaving the comment there, because the comment was not the story.

I have a team now I’d walk through fire with.It’s small, and it is my team.

I want you to know that before I tell you the part that isn’t better.It left a mark.”The J...