Disney’s Snow White actress Rachel Zegler issued an apology last night for an unhinged profanity-laced meltdown where she appeared to wish harm or misfortune against US President-Elect Donald Trump and the 75.5 million Americans who voted for him. But inconsistencies between the apology and the initial rant lead one to wonder, did she actually write it?
Rachel Zegler has apologized for lashing out at Trump supporters! The Snow White trailer is about to drop this month, and Disney is doing DAMAGE CONTROL!! pic.twitter.com/SwW5eAoj7E
— Steph Anie (@mynerdyhome) November 15, 2024
“Hi, everyone,” she said on her official Instagram account. “I would like to sincerely apologize for the election post I shared on my Instagram last week. I let my emotions get the best of me. Hatred and Anger have caused us to move further away from peace and understanding, and I’m sorry I contributed to the negative discourse.”
She then attempted to end her apology with an inspirational message for the future.
“This week has been emotional for so many of us,” she said. “But I firmly believe that everyone has the right to their opinion, even when it differs from my own. I am committed to contributing positive toward a better tomorrow.”
Rachel Zegler via Good Morning America YouTube
This would certainly be a stark about face for Zegler, who has shown no patience or understanding for differing opinions in the past. In an Instagram post prior to the election she encouraged anyone who wasn’t voting for Vice President Kamala Harris to unfollow her.
The apology came after a series of Instagram posts shared by Zegler last week came to light and went viral on X.
A screenshot of Rachel Zegler’s Incendiary tweets about Donald Trump and his supporters – Photo Credit Steph Anie, @MyNerdyHome Via X
“I find myself speechless in the midst of this,” Zegler said in her initial post-election tantrum. “Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want. Leaning us towards a world that is fearful.”
The daughter she mentions here is purely hypothetical. Zegler is not currently a parent.
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Snow White (2025), Walt Disney Studios
“I shouldn’t be this shocked,” she continued. “But I am. I am heartbroken for my friends who awoke fear this morning. And I am here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward. This loss should not have been. And it certainly should not have been by so many votes. I echo Ethel Cain’s statement more than anything. May Trump supporters and Trump himself never know peace.”
The actress posted four diatribes to her Instagram while backstage between acts at Romeo and Juliet, the Broadway show she’s currently starring in.
What’s interesting is how starkly different Zegler’s initial meltdown looks from her apology.
In her attack against Trump supporters, she writes in all lowercase letters. Yet the Rachel Zegler apology includes capitalization and flawless grammar. This leads one to wonder whether Rachel Zegler herself wrote the apology or whether it was provided to her by a publicist or even Disney higher ups.
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Disney’s live-action SNOW WHITE. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2024 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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During yesterday’s Disney Q4 2024 earnings call, CEO Bob Iger ran down the slate of Disney-owned movies the company was excited for in 2025. However, Zegler’s Snow White was never mentioned.
“Looking to 2025, we have an extremely positive content slate,” he said. “including Captain America: Brave New World, Lilo and Stitch, The Fantastic 4: First Steps, Zootopia 2, and Avatar: Fire and Ash.”
This seemed like an intentional omission by Iger, given the big budget remake is adapting one of Disney’s most classic and beloved tales.
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Disney’s live-action SNOW WHITE. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2024 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
To say there’s a lot riding on Snow White would be an understatement. The film’s budget has reportedly ballooned to over half a billion dollars before marketing. When factoring in those costs plus theater cuts, Rachel Zegler’s film would have to make over $1 billion to be profitable.
It’s worth noting that Zegler has never appeared in a financially successful film. Even The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was a huge financial step down from the first three Hunger Games movies.
With a new Snow White trailer set to debut sometime this month ahead of the film’s May release, it’s possible that Disney forced Zegler’s hand after the massive public outcry against her.
A screenshot from the trailer for Disney’s Snow White showing the stunning like to dislike ratio – YouTube, Disney
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The last trailer for Snow White still sits at a stunning like to dislike ratio, with 96 thousand likes and 1.3 million dislikes.
Zegler has been a lightning rod for controversy for months now, after she went on a tirade against the original 1937 Disney animated classic.
Honor Gillies as Barb Azure, Konstantin Taffet as Clerk Carmine and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Photo Credit: Murray Close
“The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so,” Zegler told Extra. “There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird? Weird! So we didn’t do that this time.”
She made waves again on social media when promoting the maligned trailer, ending her comments with, “and always remember, Free Palestine.”
It’s worth noting that Gal Gadot, Zegler’s co-star in this film, is a veteran of the Israeli army.
Do you believe this Rachel Zegler apology? Do you think she wrote it? Or was it handed down to her by Disney management? Sound off an let us know!
