Blonde woman in a black halter dress with red lipstick and a jeweled earring poses at a black-and-teal step-and-repeat backdrop with Cadillac branding.
The Mega Agency
News

Amanda Seyfried Says She Now Travels with a Bodyguard After Calling Charlie Kirk “Hateful”

By

Amanda Seyfried gave the interview to British GQ, published this week, and the security detail traces back to a single comment she left online last fall.

In September 2025, shortly after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, Seyfried commented “He was hateful” on an Instagram post that compiled some of Kirk’s past statements. The comment drew immediate and intense backlash.

She did not walk it back, but she did expand on it. “I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable,” she wrote. “No one should have to experience this level of violence.” In December 2025 she said she would not apologize for her opinion while maintaining that the killing was deplorable.

Blonde woman in a black halter dress with red lipstick and jeweled earrings posing at the Palm Springs International Film Festival step-and-repeat.
At the Palm Springs Convention Center on January 3, 2026, Amanda Seyfried walks the red carpet for the 37th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Photo by MEGA.

Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, was 31. He was shot and killed on September 10, 2025, while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. A suspect, Tyler Robinson, was arrested and is in custody awaiting trial.

In the GQ interview, Seyfried framed the bodyguard not as a complaint but as a measure of how a comment online can follow a person into an airport terminal. She said she wants her children to feel safe voicing their opinions, “as long as they’re not harmful.”

Thanks for reading. Follow Thought Catalog on Facebook for more stories like this, or explore our website.

Blonde woman in a black halter dress with red lipstick and a jeweled earring poses at a black-and-teal step-and-repeat backdrop with Cadillac branding.
The Mega Agency
Blonde woman in a black halter dress with red lipstick and jeweled earrings posing at the Palm Springs International Film Festival step-and-repeat.
At the Palm Springs Convention Center on January 3, 2026, Amanda Seyfried walks the red carpet for the 37th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Photo by MEGA.