AnnaLynne McCord Explains Why She Posted Her 'Dear President Vladimir Putin' Poem

AnnaLynne McCord is opening up about her “Dear President Vladimir Putin” video after receiving tons of backlash on social media.

The 34-year-old 90210 actress released the spoken word poem on Thursday (February 24) after the news that Russia invaded Ukraine.

“Dear President Vladimir Putin, I’m so sorry that I was not your mother,” AnnaLynne begins the poem. “If I was a mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light. Never would this story’s plight, the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nation sitting peaceful under the night sky.”

In a new interview with BuzzFeed, AnnaLynne explained why she wrote the poem.

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“I know how I could easily have moved in the direction of becoming a dictator myself,” she said. “If certain circumstances of my life were different, were I a little less bent toward healing and more toward vindication, I could have been a darkly powerful person.”

AnnaLynne said that she decided to share her poem after “waking up ‘in anguish’ over ‘the children of the war.’”

She added that she understands “early life trauma” so she feels for “children who grow into adults and become people who do historically horrifying things.”

AnnaLynne has previously explained how her childhood trauma led her to trying BDSM.