Actress AnnaLynne McCord confused Twitter and drew comparisons to Gal Gadot after she uploaded a subtitled video reciting a poem addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin the day it was announced Russia began invading Ukraine.
“Dear President Vladimir Putin, I’m sorry that I was not your mother,” McCord says at the beginning of the video, seemingly recorded in her living room. “I can’t imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy, you must have seen and believed. As the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel, unjust world,” McCord also said.
McCord theorized that if she were Putin’s mother, “Perhaps, you would hold dear human life. And on this night, instead of Mother Russia, you would call me, and I would set your mind quite free with the love that only can give.” You can watch McCord’s full performance below:
The 90210 star’s video was widely mocked for being extremely tone-deaf, and a very self-centered assertion that she could have caused this military crisis to never happen. Many of people pointed out its similarity to the video of Gadot and other celebrities singing “Imagine” during the start of Covid-19 lockdowns in March 2020. Gadot later reflected that the video was “in poor taste.”
Another strange reaction to this conflict included John Cena, who drew some criticism when he wrote he hoped he “could summon the powers of a real-life #Peacemaker,” in a tweet yesterday likely referencing the invasion.
