Norbert Leo Butz Calls Out Zachary Levi For Comments About Gavin Creel's Death: "Disappointed"
Zachary Levi is being called out by Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz for claiming Broadway star Gavin Creel, who died from cancer last month, would still be alive had he not received the COVID-19 vaccine: 'So incredibly disappointed.' https://t.co/huvMrsiZ0D
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) October 24, 2024
Tony award-winning Broadway actor Norbert Leo Butz called out Zachary Levi's disgusting claims that actor Gavin Creel would still be alive had he not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. Levi's bold claims and misinformation comes less than a month after Creel passed away from a rare and aggressive form of cancer on September 30th, at age 48.
“So incredibly disappointed you would politicize Gavin’s death. Really tried to give you the benefit here,” Butz wrote. “Made it halfway through, which was hard as hell. But Was utterly heartbroken, as he would have been, that you felt the need to use his life and legacy to promote this awful platform.”
Actor and dancer Chaz Wolcott felt similarly, writing: “It is harmful, dangerous and reprehensible that you would weaponize someone’s death of cancer to further your agenda about vaccines. It’s out of control ― and I am appalled at you sharing that level of unproven disinformation with your followers. You should be ashamed.”
Anti-vaxxer Zachary Levi took to Instagram last night to state he believes the COVID vaccine caused the "advanced stage 4 sarcoma turbo cancer" that killed his friend, Gavin Creel. pic.twitter.com/0kK9Jajen8
- Dana Abercrombie (@sagesurge) October 21, 2024
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