Amanda Seyfried says she is allowed her opinion after Charlie Kirk comment

By Casey Cooper-Fiske, Press Association Senior Entertainment Reporter

Mean Girls star Amanda Seyfried has said she is allowed to voice her feelings after she called late US far-right activist Charlie Kirk “hateful” in a post on Instagram.

Seyfried, 40, received backlash from Kirk’s supporters for her comment on an Instagram video featuring his most controversial statements, after his death aged 31 last year.

In an interview with British GQ, she said: “I’m allowed to f****** voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that’s not unkind necessarily.

“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.

“I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they’re not harmful. So I’m like, ‘what do I do? What do I say?’, and then all of a sudden I find myself with a f******* bodyguard at the airport and I’m like, ‘this is crazy’.”

She also spoke about doing a press tour with actress Sydney Sweeney while she was facing criticism for an advert in which she starred for clothing company American Eagle.

Seyfried added: “We had a great time on the press tour. We worked really hard, and she seemed to be having fun, but I also understood that probably it can’t be f****** easy, where she found herself…

“I have heard her stand up for herself, but I think she found herself between a rock and a hard place.”

She went on to say she did not speak about the incident with the star “unless she wants to talk about it”.

Along with her breakthrough role of Karen Smith in Mean Girls, Seyfried has also starred in films such as Mamma Mia!, Les Miserables and The Testament Of Ann Lee.

She is married to fellow American actor Thomas Sadoski, best known for his role in HBO series The Newsroom, and the couple have two children.

The full interview can be read in the Heroes issue of British GQ, which is currently available via digital download and in shops.