Jamie Lee Curtis is clarifying her reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk.

The "Freakier Friday" star, 66, told Variety she received "threatening" backlash after she appeared on a podcast in September and cried over the conservative activist's death.

"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," Curtis told Variety.

She added, "In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel's right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can't say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, 'I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way.'"

Curtis appeared on the Sept. 15 episode of the "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast days after Kirk, the cofounder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA and an ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University.

The "Halloween" actress became emotional on the podcast as she discussed Kirk's death, while noting she and him were not politically aligned.

"I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say," she said at the time. "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, and I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it," she continued.

Curtis brought up Kirk on the podcast as she raised concerns about the psychological impact of social media users being inundated with disturbing images, such as video that was taken during Kirk's shooting and quickly spread online. Comparing this to footage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Curtis noted that "I don't ever want to see" video of Kirk's death.

"Is that the reason why we're all feeling this lack of humanity? Because we are just saturated with these images," she questioned at the time.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty after Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old suspect accused of killing Kirk, was charged with aggravated murder and other felonies.

Contributing: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY

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