In an Instagram Live at the onset of the covid pandemic in 2020, Vanessa Hudgens took a page from Marvel’s supervillain Thanos and shrugged off the devastating reality of people dying from the pandemic as merely “inevitable.”
“It’s a virus, I get it. Like, I respect it,” Hudgens said. “But at the same time, like, even if everybody gets it, like, yeah, people are gonna die, which is terrible but, like, inevitable?”
Shortly after the video sparked predictable, justified controversy, Hudgens apologized—and seemingly blamed being quarantined for her insensitive comments about quarantine: “It’s a crazy time. It’s a crazy, crazy time and I am at home and in lockdown, and I hope that’s what you guys are doing too, in full quarantine and staying safe and sane. Yeah, don’t take this situation lightly—by any means.”
Sure, we all went a little nuts being cooped up in our homes. But you could just as easily have baked a loaf of sourdough instead of publicly shrugging off mass death, Vanessa.