Sydney Sweeney has more to say about participating in her now-controversial denim campaign with American Eagle.

“I was honestly surprised by the reaction. I did it because I love the jeans and love the brand,” Sweeney, 28, told People in an interview published on Friday, December 5. “I don’t support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign.”

She continued, “Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren’t true.”

The Housemaid star was the face of American Eagle’s denim campaign when it launched this summer and featured the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” The ad used a play on the words “jean” and “gene,” which sparked social media outrage that AE and Sweeney were promoting eugenics. (Eugenics is a widely discredited belief that aims to improve human

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