Jameela Jamil Slams Met Gala's Karl Lagerfeld Theme Again, Calls Out 'Famous Feminists' Who 'Chose to Celebrate' Him
justjared.comJameela Jamil is taking a stand and voicing her opinion on last night’s Met Gala. If you don’t remember, last year, after the Met Gala theme was announced, the 37-year-old She-Hulk star explained why she took issue with the choice to honor late designer Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away in February 2019.
Although she noted that he was “supremely talented,” she called him out for using “his platform [in] such a distinctly hateful way, mostly towards women, so repeatedly and up until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, offering no atonement, no apology, no help to groups he attacked.” Now, she’s issued a new statement, hours after the 2023 Met Gala took place on Monday (May 1). Keep reading to find out more… Jameela posted a statement in a post on her Instagram grid that read, “Last night, Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors.
And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.” She continued, “Suddenly your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone.
Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ we had a year to course correct here, and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot…and everyone just decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when *convenient*.
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