Jameela Jamil Slams Met Gala's Karl Lagerfeld Theme Again, Calls Out 'Famous Feminists' Who 'Chose to Celebrate' Him

Jameela Jamil is taking a stand and voicing her opinion on last night’s Met Gala.

If you don’t remember, last year, after the Met Gala theme was announced, the 37-year-old She-Hulk star explained why she took issue with the choice to honor late designer Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away in February 2019.

Although she noted that he was “supremely talented,” she called him out for using “his platform [in] such a distinctly hateful way, mostly towards women, so repeatedly and up until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, offering no atonement, no apology, no help to groups he attacked.”

Now, she’s issued a new statement, hours after the 2023 Met Gala took place on Monday (May 1).

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Jameela posted a statement in a post on her Instagram grid that read, “Last night, Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors. And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.”

She continued, “Suddenly your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone. Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ we had a year to course correct here, and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot…and everyone just decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when *convenient*. And it’s one rule for us, and another rule for everybody else. Last night we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important.”

She added in the caption of the post, “This isn’t about cancel culture. Its not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far. It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this. And it’s not just Hollywood here, the general public online participated and were entirely complicit in the erasure of the truth last night. They replaced their pitchforks with spoons last night, to lap that sh-t right up…If we carry on like this, don’t be shocked when we lose the next election.”

In the comments section, Jameela also responded to fans asking if she really would have turned down an invite to the Met Gala. She responded that she would not have attended, adding, “I spoke out about all this the day the theme was announced….it’s public record. It went viral last October. I knew exactly what I was doing.”

Jameela has been outspoken about Lagerfeld since his death, and even got into a back and forth with Cara Delevingne after he died.