Christina Ricci appears to have spoken out about the controversy between Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis surrounding their decision to write character letters to the judge in Danny Masterson’s case following his double rape conviction.
The 43-year-old Addams Family actress — who stars in Doja Cat’s new music video — took to Instagram on Saturday night to air her grievances and urge people to “believe the victims.”
Ricci did not explicitly name Kutcher, 45, or Kunis, 40, but the statements shared on her page appeared to target the couple, who have come under fire for their support of Masterson.
The married couple acknowledged the backlash in a joint video apology shared online Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday, Christina resurfaced via Instagram Stories to clarify that she wasn’t specifically referring to the Kutchers, though she admitted that “recent events have made her” think more about it.
Speaking: Christina Ricci appears to have weighed in on the Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis controversy surrounding their decision to write character letters to the judge in Danny Masterson’s case following his double rape conviction
Complicated: Ricci did not explicitly mention Kutcher, 45, or Kunis, 40, but the statements shared on her page appeared to target the couple, who have come under fire for their support of Masterson
In white font, typed against a black background, Christina wrote: “Unfortunately, I have known many ‘great guys’ who were nice to me and have been proven to be abusers in private.
‘I also have personal experience with it. Believe victims. It’s not easy to come forward. It is not easy to reach a conviction.’
In a separate slide, she continued, “So sometimes people we love and admire do terrible things. They may not do these things to us and we only know who they were to us, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t done the terrible things and discrediting the abused is a crime.”
“People we know as ‘great guys’ can be predators and abusers. It’s hard to accept, but we have to. “If we say: support victims – women, children, men, boys – then we should be able to take this position,” the note concluded.
On Sunday morning, the mother-of-two was back online to say she had no intention of calling Ashton and Mila.
“I didn’t mean for what I wrote to come across so sharply,” she began in the post to her 1.6 million followers.
‘It’s just something I’ve been thinking about in general as the misdeeds of various individuals have come to light in recent years and I too have found it difficult to reconcile the person or people I knew with the things they have done.’
She ended with, “But yes, recent events have made me think about this more.”
Christina’s take: Christina wrote in a white font against a black background: “Unfortunately, I have known many ‘great guys’ who were nice to me and have been proven to be abusers in private
More to say: In a separate slide, she continued: ‘So sometimes people we love and admire do terrible things’
Clarity: On Sunday morning, the mother of two was back online to say she had no intention of calling Ashton and Mila
His fate: Danny was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for drugging and raping two women in the early 2000s
In a short video shared to Instagram on Saturday, Ashton and Mila responded to the public outcry by saying: ‘We are aware of the pain caused by the character letters we wrote on behalf of Danny Masterson.’
“We support victims,” Mila added. “We have done this historically through our work and will continue to do so in the future.” Comments on the post have been disabled.
Critics quickly took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to express their dismay at the “legal” apology.
Journalist Yashar Ali wrote on the site: ‘It is important to note that the letters were not just character letters you would write for a friend. The letters, which contained a lot of Scientological language, were intended to undermine the victims drugged by Danny.’