Fran Drescher Speaks Out On Kim Kardashian Selfie After Backlash: It Was ‘Work’, Not ‘Fun’

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Fran Drescher wants 1 happening to beryllium clear: She took a selfie with Kim Kardashian astatine the Dolce & Gabbana manner show successful Italy this week for work, and not fun. The SAG-AFTRA president, 65, made the remark portion addressing her infuriated peers who criticized her astatine a SAG-AFTRA property conference connected Thursday, July 13, hours aft the union began its historical strike. “That wasn’t a selfie,” she pressed. “I’m a marque ambassador for a manner institution and truthful is Kim. I had lone met Kim seconds earlier that publicity representation was taken.” See the selfie successful question HERE.

“It had thing to bash with being astatine a enactment oregon having amusive — it was implicit work,” Fran added. “We work. That’s what we do.” She besides said that she was successful changeless connection with the SAG-AFTRA board, including astatine 10:30 p.m. pursuing the manner show. “And if I couldn’t get done to them due to the fact that I was connected a plane, I was texting with them perpetually passim the level ride,” she said. Furthering her point, Fran said she worked “around the timepiece successful 3 antithetic clip zones,” arsenic she besides has to attraction for her parents’ “wellbeing” astatine each times, and they unrecorded successful Florida.

Fran Drescher and Kim Kardashian are some presently moving with Dolce and Gabbana (Photo: George Pimentel/Shutterstock for SAG Awards/Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for Hulu/Shutterstock)

The nighttime earlier the property conference, connected Wednesday, July 12, SAG-AFTRA formerly began its onslaught against Hollywood’s biggest studios. They joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which was already 11 weeks into its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. It’s the archetypal clip successful 63 years that some unions person been connected strike simultaneously.

SAG-AFTRA members did not mince immoderate words erstwhile slamming the Nanny prima pursuing her quality successful Italy. “My national president chilling successful Italy portion we’re successful the mediate of negotiations and astir to spell connected strike,” Insidious: The Last Key actor Kirk Acevedo tweeted connected July 11. “We’re asking to beryllium amended compensated by the studios and Fran Drescher is mugging for cameras successful Italy. The optics look f****** terrible.” Perry Mason histrion Eric Lange added (via PEOPLE), “It’s astonishing that, connected the eve of a apt strike, portion radical are losing their homes, their wellness insurance, etc you’re partying it up with Kim successful Italy. Astonishing and indefensible.” He has since deleted the tweet.

The SAG-AFTRA board, however, supported Fran’s attendance astatine the event. “President Drescher is moving arsenic a marque ambassador for Dolce and Gabbana connected determination successful Italy. This was a committedness afloat known to the negotiating committee,” SAG-AFTRA said successful a connection to Variety on June 10. “She has been successful negotiations each time either successful idiosyncratic oregon via videoconference. President Drescher is managing a physically demanding docket crossed 3 clip zones, overseeing negotiations and moving connected determination regular arsenic good arsenic managing her parents’ needs successful [Florida]. She is returning to the States and volition beryllium connected the crushed successful L.A. time [July 11], and volition proceed to seat our negotiations.”

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher slams Bob Iger's "repugnant" onslaught remarks: "If I were that company, I would fastener him down doors and ne'er fto him speech to anybody astir this, due to the fact that it's truthful evident that helium has nary hint arsenic to what is truly happening." https://t.co/UacRrD06I4 pic.twitter.com/B7PpBMPAJn

— Variety (@Variety) July 14, 2023

On the heels of her received criticism, Fran went aft Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, who called the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes “disturbing” and unrealistic. “I recovered [his comments] terribly repungent and retired of touch. Positively code deaf,” she told Variety, arsenic seen successful the supra video. “If I were that company, I would fastener him down doors and ne'er fto him speech to anybody astir this, due to the fact that it’s truthful evident that helium has nary hint arsenic to what is truly happening connected the crushed with hard moving radical that don’t marque anyplace adjacent the wage helium is making. High 7 figures, 8 figures, this is brainsick wealth that they make, and they don’t attraction if they’re onshore barons of a medieval time.”

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