In a video posted Thursday night, Melissa McCarthy apologized to fans for a donation given to an evangelical group called Exodus Cry with a history of anti-lgbt and anti-abortion activism. She also said the $20,000 donation, granted as part of a charity effort tied to her upcoming HBO Max film “Superintelligence,” has been rescinded.
“Hi there. It has come to our attention that our 20 Days of Kindness, which is something — a kindness up that we started to kind of shine a light on 20 great charities — had one in there that, there’s no other way to say it, we blew it,” McCarthy said. “We made a mistake and we backed a charity that, upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not. So I want to thank everyone, on social media who said, ‘What are you doing? Are you sure you want to back this?’ Because the answer was no we do not.
“Hi there. It has come to our attention that our 20 Days of Kindness, which is something — a kindness up that we started to kind of shine a light on 20 great charities — had one in there that, there’s no other way to say it, we blew it,” McCarthy said. “We made a mistake and we backed a charity that, upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not. So I want to thank everyone, on social media who said, ‘What are you doing? Are you sure you want to back this?’ Because the answer was no we do not.
- 11/13/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Update, 8:00 p.m. Thursday: Melissa McCarthy has apologized for the donation to Exodus Cry, which she says “stands for everything that we do not.” She said the donation has also been revoked, and in a separate statement HBO Max confirmed this. Read more here.
Original post, 4:27 p.m. Thursday: HBO Max took a drubbing on social media after it was reported that the streaming service gave $20,000 to a group with a history of harsh anti-lgbtq and anti-abortion stances as part of the “20 Days of Kindness” campaign to promote Melissa McCarthy’s film “Superintelligence.”
The group in question is Exodus Cry, a Sacramento-based Christian organization that describes itself as “committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation.”
However, according to The Daily Beast, the group’s CEO Benjamin Nolot, who also wrote and directed the Netflix documentary film “Liberated,” has a history of inflammatory rhetoric towards homosexuals and abortion.
Original post, 4:27 p.m. Thursday: HBO Max took a drubbing on social media after it was reported that the streaming service gave $20,000 to a group with a history of harsh anti-lgbtq and anti-abortion stances as part of the “20 Days of Kindness” campaign to promote Melissa McCarthy’s film “Superintelligence.”
The group in question is Exodus Cry, a Sacramento-based Christian organization that describes itself as “committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation.”
However, according to The Daily Beast, the group’s CEO Benjamin Nolot, who also wrote and directed the Netflix documentary film “Liberated,” has a history of inflammatory rhetoric towards homosexuals and abortion.
- 11/12/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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