Jamie Lee Curtis, an Oscar-winning actress and the supportive mother of a transgender daughter, has sparked controversy with her comments praising Charlie Kirk’s faith.

“I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” Curtis said during her September 12 appearance on the WTF podcast with Marc Maron, fighting back tears, “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.”

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When she started the conversation, she accidentally called him Charlie Crist and said she likely misspoke “because of Christ, because of [Kirk’s] deep, deep belief.” There actually is a famous person named Charlie Crist: the former governor of Florida.

“Even though… 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,” she said.

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Throughout the conversation, it was clear that Curtis was holding back tears.

“I know there is video of his assassination,” she added. “I know people who’ve seen it. Yesterday, we watched, again, these images of those buildings coming down [on 9/11]. We as a society are bombarded with imagery, so we don’t know what the longitudinal effects [are] of seeing those towers come down over and over and over and over again, or watching his execution over and over and over again.”

“I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot,” she said, emphasizing that we have become numb to disturbing images due to how often we are exposed to them.

Her comments have sparked significant online discourse.

Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional over Charlie Kirk's tragic passing during an interview with Marc Maron

Source: LGBTQ Nation