Lucy Lawless slams Kevin Sorbo over racist Kamala Harris comment

Xena: Warrior Princess actress Lucy Lawless is ripping into her former Hercules: The Legendary Journeys costar Kevin Sorbo following a racist comment he made about Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sorbo went viral on Thursday evening after he penned a publish on X (previously Twitter) that questioned the Democratic presidential candidate’s race, writing, “If Kamala actually is black, have her say the N-word, let the individuals resolve for themselves.”

His remark, which Sorbo has since pinned to his profile, comes after former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Harris — who’s the daughter of an Indian mom and Jamaican father — “occurred to show Black” and now “needs to be often called Black” at a Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists convention in Chicago final month.

Sorbo’s publish was met with swift condemnation on-line from a number of X customers together with Lawless, who selected to handle the scenario with an anecdote from their previous. “In his protection, I personally witnessed a time when Kevin Sorbo caught up for a black man towards white individuals,” she wrote on Friday.

The actress recalled the second she alleges occurred when she was on the Hercules set in February 1995. “We actors have been sitting round and I purchased up a information merchandise. I stated, ‘Guys, did you guys hear about that girl and her good friend who have been brutally murdered in LA? I believe perhaps the footballer did it!’ And Peanut growled: ‘Hey! I knew Nicole and let me inform you… she was no picnic!’ BOOM.”

Lawless is referring to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and her tennis teacher Ron Goldman. Late NFL star O.J. Simpson, who had gotten divorced from Brown two years prior, was a first-rate suspect within the murders, however was in the end acquitted after a extremely publicized trial in 1995.

Lawless claimed that she and her castmates “have been all gobsmacked” by Sorbo’s declaration. “I stated, ‘She did not should be stabbed to dying.’ He replied, ‘I am simply saying, She was a chunk of labor,'” she added. “It caught in my thoughts as a result of these Americanisms have been uncommon to us. However we knew what he meant. #DontGetMeStarted!”

This is not the primary time Lawless has known as out Sorbo for his inflammatory political remarks on-line. She beforehand slammed him for quote-sharing a conspiracy concept that said it was “leftist agitators” who broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, not Trump supporters. 

After Sorbo captioned his publish, “They do not appear like patriots to me…,” Lawless responded, “No, Peanut. They aren’t Patriots. They’re your flying monkeys, homegrown terrorists, QAnon actors. They’re the douchebags that exit and do the evil bidding of individuals such as you who prefer to wind them up like toys and allow them to do their worst. #KeepingYourFilthyHandsClean #Enabler.”

Along with Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, Sorbo and Lawless additionally lent their voices to the 1998 animated movie, Hercules and Xena – The Animated Film: The Battle for Mount Olympus.