Jamie Curtis Addresses Past Comments About Charlie Kirk’s Faith, Says ‘It Was a Mistranslation’

Jamie Lee Curtis is setting the record straight regarding a statement she made about Charlie Kirk. 

In an interview with Variety published Tuesday, October 28, the Oscar-winning actress, 66, addressed the “threatening” backlash she received after she discussed the death of the right-wing political activist —  who was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, September 10 — on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.

During the podcast episode, Curtis got emotional about Kirk’s death, remarking, “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died that he felt connected to his faith even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.”

“I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith,” she added. “And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.”

The Everywhere Everything All at Once actress subsequently faced backlash from people who felt she was ok with Kirk’s far-right views, but she told Variety that was not the case.

“An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God,” she explained to the outlet. “And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not.”