Jared Padalecki Takes Down Post Supporting Perez Hilton After Backlash

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 10: Perez Hilton attends the expansive opening of Caspian's Cocktails & Caviar astatine Caesars Palace connected January 10, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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The reactions pursuing personage blogger Perez Hilton’s distressing livestream and consequent hospitalization person been varied crossed the board, and Jared Padalecki is the latest successful the crossfire.

Padalecki, 44, champion known for his starring domiciled successful Supernatural and much precocious The Boys, wrote a warm, lyrical tweet aft news of Hilton’s incident. Padalecki has agelong campaigned for intelligence wellness awareness, and the station was not retired of characteristic for him.

"Hey @PerezHilton. Just wanted to scope retired and fto you cognize that you’re successful my thoughts. This 'being human’ is simply a unusual thing. Exhilarating. Exhausting. Fast. Slow. Wonderful… and… astatine times… awful. I dream you are trying arsenic champion arsenic you tin to beryllium benignant to yourself correct now. Please situation yourself pinch the emotion and support that each humans deserve," he wrote successful the now deleted tweet.

The backlash was swift. Padalecki deleted the station and issued a brief first apology that said, “I didn’t know. It’s been brought to my attention. I’m sorry”, earlier pursuing up pinch a longer mentation connected Sunday.

"I had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA astir his past," he wrote. "I had heard of him. Obviously. I had heard that he hadn't precisely 'been kind' to maine successful the past. So, my thought is ever to springiness grace and forgiveness to those who whitethorn person tried to 'harm' you… successful my experience, it usually useful retired amended than holding a grudge aliases wishing reward connected personification else. On my life, I person ne'er successful my life, not once, looked him up aliases gone to 1 of his sites. I simply thought he was a 'tabloid' type of sensationalist journalist. I DO NOT guidelines for, aliases support, ANY of the actions I conscionable now recovered retired that he has committed. Full stop. I'm sorry if my words caused immoderate harm."

Why Jared Padalecki’s Perez Hilton Apology Got Backlash

As mentioned above, Padalecki is 1 of the much salient personage advocates for intelligence wellness consciousness successful Hollywood. He has spoken publicly astir seeking curen for suicidal ideation during his clip connected the massively celebrated Supernatural, and has consistently utilized his level to trim stigma astir intelligence wellness struggles.

Hilton (real sanction Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr), the taxable of Padalecki’s tweets, built 1 of the astir trafficked personage rumors platforms of the 2000s net era connected a instauration that galore of its subjects described arsenic cruel, and the nationalist pointing retired of this evident congruence was what Padalecki had to contend with.

Mila Kunis said successful 2018 that he was "the first personification that created disfigured news, that virtually conscionable dispersed filth," adding that it “allowed group to beryllium mean.”

He consistently drummed up speculation about LGBTQ celebrities earlier they had travel retired themselves, for example. Articles pinch sadistic nicknames for celebrities are still up connected his website, for illustration ‘Cokate’ for Kate Moss aft photographs leaked of her consuming cocaine, ‘Kiki Drunkst’ for Kirsten Dunst astir rumours of an intoxicant problem and Zacquisha for Zac Efron, a predominant moniker accompanied by speculation astir his intersexual orientation.

Even minors for illustration Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears’ children did not flight the website’s purview. In 2010, Hilton posted a picture of the past 17 twelvemonth aged Cyrus getting retired of a car, pinch immoderate parts pixelated, implying the kid prima was not afloat clothed. He later took it down aft controversy.

In his 2020 memoir TMI: My Life successful Scandal, Hilton expressed regrets for the behaviour which catapulted him into the limelight.

"I person a ton of regrets, peculiarly because I now spot that I ne'er needed to beryllium truthful mean aliases cruel," he wrote. “One of the galore things I regret is that I wounded truthful galore group by giving them nasty nicknames, and supra each that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.”

"I besides regret that I thought it was OK to retired celebrities. That is thing I nary longer believe."

The August incident is besides not Hilton’s first wellness situation this year. In March, pursuing betterment from a 21-day hospitalization, he posted a video apologising for past behaviour and saying he had recovered God. Hilton said he had been brought up Catholic but was “never a believer” until now.

"It was existent and this has been life-changing. I’m truthful grateful. I’m excited to commencement taking the kids to religion each week. And to conscionable cognize that God is real. … I don’t person to dream to believe. I cognize now,” he said amidst tears.

Celebrity Reactions to Perez Hilton’s Hospitalization Have Been Varied

The guidance to Hilton’s hospitalization has divided personage societal media successful ways uncomfortable to representation cleanly onto a civilized grid. Celebrity civilization has and has not travel a agelong measurement since Hilton’s heyday, and the mobility of publically forgiving seemingly repentant, well-known figures whose actions person caused very existent harm, is simply a analyzable one.

Ireland Baldwin, whose consequence captured the gamut much articulately than most, posted to Instagram Stories connected August 5 calling Hilton a "despicable quality being" for “humilating” her family and sexualizing her arsenic a child, while simultaneously stating his children did not merit this and hoping he gets the thief he needs.

Hilton’s family confirmed publically that he is successful superior but unchangeable condition, has knowledgeable humor loss, and will require surgery.

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