Famous anti-vaxxer Zachary Levi‘s new conspiracy idea has additional alienated his pals and followers within the Broadway group.
Following Gavin Creel‘s demise at age 48 final month, Levi implied in a weird pro-Trump rant on Instagram Reside that the Tony-winning actor died due to the COVID vaccine, drawing ire from these Creel’s followers and family members.
“I do know that that is going to offend some individuals and make some individuals mad, and I want it didn’t,” prefaced Levi. “So, a number of weeks in the past, my buddy Gavin Creel died. He was 48 years previous, and he was one of many healthiest individuals I knew.”
Though Creel died of a uncommon and aggressive type of sarcoma, which Levi known as a “turbo most cancers” that “got here out of nowhere” earlier than he speculated, “You higher consider that, with every thing in me, I consider that if these COVID vaccinations weren’t compelled on the American public, that the theaters weren’t being pushed and leveraged —”
Levi paused earlier than explaining that the theater homeowners and producers weren’t accountable, however he holds “individuals on the prime” accountable.
The American Most cancers Society and the Nationwide Most cancers Institute have each denounced theories that the COVID vaccine causes most cancers.
Depraved alum Jenna Leigh Inexperienced wrote within the feedback part, “Gavin deserved higher. What has occurred to you to have flown so removed from decency and sanity? It’s simply so unhappy.”
“So extremely disenchanted you’d politicize Gavin’s demise,” wrote 2x Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz. “Actually tried to provide the profit right here. Made it midway by, which was laborious as hell. However was completely heartbroken, as he would have been, that you simply felt the necessity to use his life and legacy to advertise this terrible platform.”
“Complete POS,” Bobby Cronin commented. “Cease utilizing Gavin’s demise for consideration.”
Referencing the 2016 Broadway revival that starred each Levi and Creel, Ellyn Marsh wrote, “You had been the worst a part of She Loves Me.”
Photographer Evan Zimmerman recalled, “Photographing you in She Loves Me, I simply bear in mind you chain smoking outdoors the stage door. Your poor solid needed to deal not solely with you however your stench.”
Broadway publicist Lisa Goldberg additionally laid into Levi on X. “I’m going to publish it bc it appears nobody else is prepared to touch upon this… who do you assume you might be speaking about Gavin Creel like this? To say Gavin (or anybody) received stage 4 most cancers and died bc of a vaccine?” she wrote. “Absolutely the disrespect to Gavin’s reminiscence, his pals & household, to science, to drugs, to the entire individuals struggling w/ ailments together with most cancers previous & current, to the entire individuals grieving Gavin’s loss, or others grieving losses from the entire individuals who died from Covid earlier than that vaccine was obtainable??!
Goldberg added, “Are you kidding me with this absolute rubbish?! Go peddle your ignorance elsewhere – it’s disgusting. DISGUSTING.”
Levi beforehand endorsed Donald Trump at a rally final month after his first choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential election.
