Megan Fox has spoken out to clarify comments she made about former US President Donald Trump after she called him “a legend”.
The drama kicked off after Megan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, where she mentioned that she and her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly were seated near the former president at the UFC 264 fight in Las Vegas.
“I was in a row with [Justin] Bieber, and Trump was also in my row,” Megan explained.
“He had, like, thirty secret service with him. He was a legend. That arena was very supportive of Trump when he came in.”
Fox went on to say that at the time, she worried for her safety due to being in close proximity to the controversial figure.
“If someone is a target, then I’m like, I could be harmed because I’m adjacent to where he is,” she said. “I was worried about my own safety, that’s all I was caring about.”
Megan soon received a slew of hate mail and death threats on social media after viewers interpreted her comments as her support for Trump and the Republican party, forcing the Transformers star to clarify what she meant.
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“I do not align myself with any political party or individual politicians,” Fox wrote on Instagram stories.
“I never said Donald Trump is a legend. I said he was a legend … in that arena (key part of the sentence).”
She continued: “The arena was filled with UFC fight fans. Many of them clearly Republican based off the insane crowd reaction he received walking into the T-Mobile venue. That was an observable fact. Not my opinion.”
Fox then took aim at trolls who had relentlessly attacked her over the innocent observation..
“Really loving this uneducated, mid-evil, pitchfork carrying, burn a witch at the stake mentality though,” she wrote.
“The world needs more of that.”
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