In a lengthy Instagram post, the actress playing Starlight on Prime Video's R-rated comic book series also announces that she's leaving social media after the drama.
- January 29, 2024
AceShowbiz - "The Boys" star Erin Moriarty claps back at Megyn Kelly following plastic surgery accusations. Making use of her Instagram account, the actress labeled the claims "horrific" and misinformation while announcing that she's leaving social media after the drama.
"This is something I truly never anticipated writing. We're all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things," Erin began her lengthy message on Friday, January 26. "To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner - to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified."
In the post, Erin noted that "Megyn used a photo taken 'a year ago' according to her, that had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE (I'm about to turn 30) as an example (maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds)." She added, "How utterly misinformed, inaccurate, and clickbait seeking people who we follow and consider to be informed is appalling. … I saw the comments, scathing enough to just turn my comments off. But this is becoming harassment. This is becoming false news."
The Starlight depicter revealed that she "will not have access to it for an extensive if not permanent break." Even though she claimed that "social media was my ability to connect with fans," she's "deciding to invest my energy into my work. Social media is not something that came naturally to me and that was an investment of energy to connect with you guys. And I'm horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment. It's broken my heart. You've broken my heart. You've lost the privilege of this account."
"So, you can believe whatever you want. But there's no excuse for these horrific allegations, the verbal abuse that I had to delete, and genuinely false information that is being used to perpetuate a message that it exhibitionist feminism. You don't have to believe me when I say that these videos are absolutely false," she continued.
Concluding her message, Erin directed it to Megyn. "Shame on you Megyn Kelly. Shame on you, Fox News (vought incarnate). Implying that my photo is reflective of women being in a worse place is as false as my conviction in saying that if you resigned, you would be leaving women in a better place," she wrote.
Fellow co-stars on the Prime Video R-rated comic book series showed love and support in the comments section. Jack Quaid commented, "Love you, Erin. F**k the haters." Chace Crawford, meanwhile, left a red heart emoji.
Erin's post came after Megyn accused her of plastic surgery in a January 17 episode of "The Megyn Kelly Show". "More and more young women are doing this," Kelly said in the episode. "It's not about an objection to plastic surgery, it's about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself... I find it like a sign of mental illness. I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, 'Please don't do this.' "
She later displayed an image of the star, whom she initially described as a "nice, beautiful, natural gal," before sharing that she's surprised to see a more recent picture of the actress. "I thought it was just an AI-generated face... but apparently it's real," she explained. "She's done this to herself."