Amanda Seyfried is sharing her feelings about Charlie Kirk after his assassination last week.
“He was hateful,” Seyfried, 39, wrote in the comments section of a Tuesday, September 16, Instagram video from the account @So.Informed, which pointed out controversial statements made by Kirk about abortion, immigration, gay people, trans rights and more throughout his career.
“‘Ask yourself, why is exposing the flaws of MLK’s life and character — something he said we should judge others by — so controversial?’ – Charlie Kirk, January 2024,” the account captioned the post.
Seyfried also took to her Instagram Stories on Monday to seemingly react to news of the conservative political activist’s death, sharing a post that read, “You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating.”
Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a right-wing conservative non-profit credited for helping President Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election,, was on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday, September 10, to speak at an event when he was shot and killed at the age of 31. Police later identified Tyler Robinson as Kirk’s alleged shooter on Friday, September 12. He is currently being held in police custody and without bail at Utah County Jail.
On Tuesday, September 16, prosecutors formally charged Robinson with seven counts in connection with Kirk’s death, announcing that they will seek the death penalty in the case.
Charlie is survived by his wife, Erika Kirk, and their two children, as son and a daughter. Erika, 36, broke her silence on her husband’s death on Friday.
“Charlie loved his children and he loved me with all of his heart and I knew that every day. He made sure I knew that every day,” she said during a livestream on Charlie’s X account. “Every day he would ask me, ‘How can I serve you better? How can I be a better husband? How can I be a better father?’ … He was a such a good man. He still is such a good man. He was the perfect father. He was the perfect husband.”
She later shared a video of herself crying by his open casket via Instagram. “The world is evil. But our Savior. Our Lord. Our God. Не is so good. I will never have the words. Ever,” she wrote on Friday. “The sound of this widow weeping echoes throughout this world like a battle cry. I have no idea what any of this means. But baby, I know you do and so does our Lord.”
A memorial for the commentator is also being planned. “Building a Legacy, Remembering Charlie Kirk” will be held on Sunday, September 21, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The venue, home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, can hold as many as 73,000 people.
Seyfried is far from the first celebrity to speak out about Kirk’s death. Jamie Lee Curtis said during the Monday episode of Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast that she was mourning the loss despite disagreeing with “almost every point I ever heard him say.”
“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, 66, said while holding back tears. “Even though I find what 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.”
Michael Keaton, meanwhile, echoed a similar sentiment during the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 50th anniversary gala on Monday night.
“Before we start to get into the meat of this thing, I’m going to take a minute to say that, regardless of how I probably — not probably — have disagreed with many things he said, Charlie Kirk leaves behind two kids and a wife,” Keaton, 74, said at the top of his speech, per Variety. “You gotta remember that. Because in the end, shooting people will never answer anything, and the irony that he was killed with a gun is unbelievable.”
