Ellen DeGeneres‘ famous friends are divided on the star’s friendship with former presidentGeorge W. Bush.
After DeGeneres, 61, defended her friendship with the conservative politician on her talk show, some of her famous friends likeReese WitherspoonandKristen Bellpraised her for preaching kindness to others.
“Thank you for this important reminder, Ellen!” Witherspoonwrote in a since-deleted tweetthat also included a quote from DeGeneres.
“I have friends who don’t think the same things that I do. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean be kind to the people who think the same way you do. I mean ..Be Kind to Everyone,” DeGeneres’ quote read.
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Witherspoon also commented “exactly” alongside the bullseye emoji on DeGeneres’ Instagram post where she defended the friendship.
While some were on her side, other celebrities likeMark RuffaloandSusan Sarandondisagreed with her message.
Sarandon didn’t add her own thoughts to the matter, choosing to instead quote anarticle from Out.comcriticizing DeGeneres’ stance.
“But missing the point entirely, DeGeneres framed the issue as simply a matter of her hanging out with someone with different opinions, not a man repeatedly accused of being a war criminal,” Sarandon’stweet quoted.
Ruffalo took a different approach and expressed why he disagreed with DeGeneres’ call for kindness.
“Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths & displacement, and the deep scars—emotional & otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness,” Ruffalo tweeted alongside aVanity Fairarticle.
On her talk show on Tuesday, DeGeneres, addressed the event, pointing out that it’s a good thing when two people of different backgrounds can be friendly.
“They thought, ‘Why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president?’” she said, joking that they “didn’t even notice I’m holding the brand-new iPhone 11” in the shot. “But a lot of people were mad, and they did what people do when they’re mad: They tweet.”
To that, DeGeneres said, “Exactly. Here’s the thing. I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have” (Bush was agueston DeGeneres’ talk show in 2017).
source: people.com
