Sydney Sweeney Breaks Silence on Jeans Ad to Note She Has Nothing to Say About Jeans Ad

Sydney Sweeney has finally addressed the controversy around her not-actually-that-controversial American Eagle ad, and boy was it not worth the wait.

“I didn’t really see a lot of it,” she told GQ, noting that she was filming Euphoria at the time. Sweeney added that “it was surreal” but “it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”

As to why she didn’t issue a statement earlier, she said, “I’ve always believed that I’m not here to tell people what to think … when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”

American Eagle has a Jewish CEO and a pretty respectable history of inclusivity. Nevertheless, their “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” ad was called a Nazi dogwhistle by a small number of social media users, none of whom you’ve ever heard of, and those posts were quickly promoted by a vast network of right wing accounts who were hoping that “boobs” would become conservative coded. It kind of worked, at least among people who aren’t paying attention. Last week, Sharon Stone defended Sweeney (from whom?) by saying, “It’s hard to be hot.”

Sweeney’s new award-season hopeful Christy, about boxer Christy Brinkely, lands in theaters on November 7th.