Jameela Jamil Flames Met Gala Decision to ‘Award the Highest Honor Possible to a Known Bigot’

“All of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when convenient,” she wrote on Instagram of Karl Lagerfeld

Jameela Jamil attends the FYC event for NBC's "The Good Place" at Saban Media Center on June 07, 2019 in North Hollywood, California.
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Actress and activist Jameela Jamil doubled down on her disapproval of Monday night’s Met Gala celebration in regard to the theme chosen: Karl Lagerfeld.

“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,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.”

Jamil, known for starring roles in the Disney+ series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” and the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” wrote in her caption that her post isn’t about cancel culture or Karl but about “showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics.”

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