FLASHBACK: Kirstie Alley tells Tucker she was shocked by Hollywood's cancel culture, backlash over politics

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'I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone': Kirstie Alley tells all in 'Tucker Carlson Today' interview

Kirstie Alley gets brutally honest about addiction, Scientology, lockdowns, Hollywood and supporting Trump in a must-see interview Wednesday on Fox Nation's 'Tucker Carlson Today.'

Actress Kirstie Alley, whose death from cancer this week has sent shockwaves through the nation, had previously faced incessant backlash for supporting former President Donald Trump. In a 2021 episode of Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today," Alley shared how being honest about her political opinion took an extreme turn.

The star recalled working on a project five years ago where she first expressed her interest in voting for Trump. Following her public expression, some producers revealed they had similar intentions but kept quiet out of fear they’d "never work again" – and Alley said she knew they were right.

"People go, ‘You're so brave.’ I go, ‘No, I think I'm stupid,’" she said. "Because honestly, it is a real situation. And it is a real blackballing situation. And it's so strange to me because artists are free-thinkers for the most part."

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Alley told Carlson that she’d never considered herself a very political person and, referring to her time starring in the popular ‘80s sitcom "Cheers," recalled how differing political views were always welcome.

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Alley astutely pointed to how many of her co-stars throughout her career would commit a variation of illegal or socially shameful acts, like doing heavy drugs, without facing the same repercussions many people today have for supporting conservative thinking.

"You can be cooking meth and sleeping with hookers but as long as, apparently, you didn't vote for Trump," she said. "I feel like I'm in the ‘Twilight Zone’ a bit with the whole concept of it."

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"On Twitter, I had many celebrities follow me and now I think three follow me," she told Carlson at the time. "I'm the same person. I'm the girl who voted for Obama, twice. And I'm like, ‘Oh, so you liked me when I voted for Obama, and now you're this?’ And it's made me have to rethink, weirdly, my whole friendships, all my friendships."

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