I mean, Christina Ricci is right and she should say it.
A day after Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis came out with one of the most insincere apologies in the history of Hollywood insincere apologies, Christina Ricci posted a message on Instagram that feels very much like a call out. And considering this is Hollywood and celebs are very, very careful about the stuff they post on social media, it’s probably safe to assume this wasn’t just a “wrong place, wrong time,” kinda message.
If it sounds like a call-out and it feels like a call-out, then it probably is one.
“Unfortunately I’ve known lots of ‘awesome guys’ who were lovely to me but have been proven to be abusers privately,” Ricci said, which goes to the heart of the character letters both Kutcher and Kunis wrote for convicted rapist Danny Masterson. Masterson being a good friend to them means absolutely nothing and people as involved in activism like Kutcher and Kunis surely know this.
They just don’t care.
“I’ve also had personal experience with this,” Ricci went on to say, adding. “Believe victims. It’s not easy to come forward. It’s not easy to get a conviction.”
Of course, Ricci isn’t the only one calling them out, the entire internet has — but celebrities doing so is still very important. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are more likely to pay attention to the opinion of someone like Christina Ricci than all of us, no matter how loud we are on social media (which is very, they didn’t even dare to enable comments on their so-called apology).
And in the end, we don’t even care about Kutcher and Kunis learning a lesson, not really. This is more about the principle of the thing — and about making sure other celebrities understand that you cannot pretend you support victims if you have no qualms defending your friends when they do something wrong. This understanding might not make them better people, but it would at least send a better message.
