Initially, Alley, who had struggled to find mainstream work in film and television since initially expressing her approval of Trump in 2016, doubled down, saying to Sean Hannity of Fox News, “They always attack the same three things: that I’m fat, irrelevant, Scientologist. But this has been going on for 40 years, so I’m sort of prepared. That really is basically all they have to offer, so I honestly don’t take it too personally because I feel that people are angry and they have the right to say what they want to say, and I have the right to block them if I don’t like the way they speak.”
Yet the following year, she informed Tucker Carlson that she regretted her outspokenness. “People go: ‘You’re so brave.’ I go: ‘No, I think I’m stupid.’ Because honestly… it is a real blackballing situation… You can be cooking meth and sleeping with hookers, but as long as, apparently, you didn’t vote for Trump… I feel like I’m in The Twilight Zone a bit, with the whole concept of it.”
Save for an appearance on the most recent season of The Masked Singer, Alley did not work again after her Trump endorsement, which should indicate — if there was ever any doubt — that the entertainment industry is an unforgiving place for women with their own opinions.
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