Legendary screen actress Jamie Lee Curtis held back tears Monday morning (October 10) as she discussed anti-Semitic tweets shared by Kanye West over the weekend.
As reported here, West – just days after being banned from Instagram for posts deemed anti-Jewish – was met with outrage for taking the same rhetoric to Twitter by saying he was going to “go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” The message came as Kanye continued to battle backlash for unveiling a custom White Lives Matter t-shirt.
While promoting the latest installment of the ‘Halloween’ franchise, ‘Halloween Ends,’ Curtis waxed honest on her thoughts about Kanye’s weekend social media activity.
Look inside to hear what she said.
“I burst into tears,” said the 63-year-old when asked about Kanye’s tweets by resident ‘Today’ show hostess Hoda Kotb.
Jamie Lee, who had already responded to the rapper directly via Twitter, got emotional when discussing the topic.
“I woke up and burst into tears. Defcon 3 on Jewish people? What are you doing?,” the actress relayed at the video above’s 3:00-minute mark before later continuing, “It’s bad enough that fascism is on the rise around the world. But on Twitter, on a portal, to pour that in? As if Jewish people haven’t had it hard enough?”
Curtis, the daughter of Jewish actor Tony Curtis, finished her message for West by calling his actions ‘abhorrent,’ wishing ‘he gets help,’ and hoping ‘his kids get help from him.’
Watch the full segment above.
[main photo sources: Getty Images / TODAY Show]
Your thoughts?
How do you as a black man wake up and choose white supremacy?
It’s like Kanye West woke up and just chose to be a Nazi one day.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he comes out and tells you how much he loves Hitler.
like in the span of a week you use your energy to spew anti-black slogans and anti-semitic rhetoric.
You might as well call him KK Kanye at this point
Words! by Charlemagne the god, The Breakfast Club.
Because he’s speaking TRUTH?! The real Nazis are the ones silencing him. If he really was just “crazy,” why would they shut him down? Let that sink in. You can only say what they WANT you to say.
If you could go back in time wouldn’t you want to stop the sources that spread Nazisim and the KKK rhetorics?
That’s the same thing, we don’t need to hear him spread more hatred just because he wants to sell more t-shirts and be the biggest gold digger in the world.
He is not entitled to special treatment, he needs to take responsibility for his words and be educated.
He’s not telling the TRUTH! Private companies are silencing him & they’re Nazis?! How delusional! It’s like I would speak the “truth” about you & you won’t to talk to me again. In you’re example, you would be the Nazi! How f****** delusional!!! You should also get some help. This mindset is not healthy.
This dude’s a nutcase and his mum died after figuring that out. Aint that funny?? This dude’s joke hope he’s kids fare well lmaoo
Haha! Its funny but kinda sad
Thats good cuz he’s making other people sad too
Lmao
His kids will pay for dads actions and experience hate speech
Kanye fans be like –
https://twitter.com/BussinWTB/status/1579226487206862848
LOL!
The only time WM “enjoy” being submissive toward BM.
In the bedroom or the locker room.