JoJo Siwa Says Candace Cameron Bure’s Traditional Marriage Comments ‘Got to Me’ Post-Feud
27.07.2023 - 17:37
/ usmagazine.com
JoJo Siwa was ready to put her feud with Candace Cameron Bure to rest — until the Full House alum made some controversial comments about “traditional marriage.”
“I haven’t talked about this ever,” Siwa, 20, said during the Thursday, July 27, episode of Nick Viall’s “Viall Files” podcast. “She did her Christmas press release for her [Great American Family] movies and it’s fine, and you should do a movie with traditional marriage with a man to a woman, not that it should be ‘traditional marriage,’ but it is.”
Siwa continued: “It wasn’t about that, it was that she wants to do a movie about that to put down [the] LGBTQIA [community] and that she was going to specifically make movies that had no representation of LGBTQIA. It’s fine if you are doing it because it’s just your movie’s story line and it’s just it is what it is, like, not everything needs to be gay essentially. But when you’re doing it out of spite to [theoretically] say that, ‘Too much is about LGBTQIA and you guys suck and I want to make a movie about traditional marriage and you’re not traditional,’ that got to me a little bit.”
Cameron Bure, 47, made headlines in November 2022 when she told WSJ. Magazine that she moved from Hallmark to Great American Family to tell faith-based stories that have “traditional marriage” at the forefront. After sparking widespread backlash, Cameron Bure eventually wrote via Instagram that she did not intend to “intentionally” offend anyone with her remarks.
“I am a devoted Christian. Which means that I believe that every human being bears the image of God,” she wrote in her social media statement that November. “Because of that, I am called to love all people, and I do. If you know me, you know that I am a person who loves fiercely