Jamie Lee Curtis sets the record straight on her Charlie Kirk comments

Jamie Lee Curtis addressed the backlash she received after she got emotional over Charlie Kirk’s September assassination.

“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,” the “Freaky Friday” actress said in a new interview with Variety.

“And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not. In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time,” she claimed.

“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, 66, then slammed the idea that she has to be “careful” about what she says as a public figure.

“I don’t have to be careful,” she declared to the interviewer. “If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you.

“I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”

Nearly a week after Kirk was fatally shot on Sept. 10 at age 31, the “Halloween” star became emotional as she spoke about the right-wing political activist’s death — despite not agreeing with him politically.

“I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say. 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,” she said on the Sept. 15 episode of the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast.

“Even though I find what 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,” Curtis added.

The Oscar winner then criticized the act of people continuously sharing the viral video of Kirk being shot.

“I’m associated with this awful day of someone being assassinated on television,” she said, explaining that she fears we have become “inured” to such violent images.

Several fans called out Curtis, who has a trans daughter, for empathizing with Kirk, who has been accused of being racist, anti-LGBTQ and misogynistic.

At one point, the late podcaster claimed the “transgender thing” in America “is a throbbing middle finger to God.”

“You disagree with almost every point you heard him say but also believe him to be a man of faith? The knots people tie themselves up in trying to please both sides of aisle are hilarious,” tweeted one user last month.

“Jamie- history is FULL of men who did horrible things in the name of their ‘faith,’” added another.