In one of the more unexpected celebrity feuds, actor Carrie Coon is sniping back at former “View” co-host Meghan McCain, who slammed the “White Lotus” star on social media Thursday for “showing her tits to everyone” on the third season currently airing on HBO.
The drama surprisingly began with a Hollywood Reporter feature published Wednesday, in which Coon said she was glad that her “White Lotus” co-star Leslie Bibb plays a conservative woman named Kate — who reveals she voted for President Donald Trump.
“I do think people like Meghan McCain and her community are really gratified to see a conservative person on television,” Coon told the outlet at the time. “I have conservative people in my life who reached out to me to say that was an awesome conversation.”
“I don’t think it vilifies Kate,” she added about Bibb’s character coming out as a Republican.
McCain seemed offended by the comments — despite Coon specifically noting that she’s glad to see a conservative perspective represented and hasn’t abandoned her right-wing friends in real life — and slammed the actor Thursday on X, formerly Twitter.
“Yes Carrie, I am ‘gratified’ that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the responsible, family oriented one not making a fool of herself,” wrote McCain. “Unlike the progressive liberal you’re representing who is sleeping with hotel staff and showing her tits to everyone.”
Coon’s character doesn’t sleep with any of the fictional staffers and has only been shown nude while skinny-dipping or having sex with a hotel worker’s friend. The actor reacted to the bizarre backlash to her interview comments with an insult of her own Thursday on X: “I didn’t realize my quote was so inflammatory. Is ‘gratified’ a new trigger word?”
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Their feud seemingly began in March when McCain reacted to Trump’s speech to Congress on social media by thanking the president for his “beautiful” vow to combat child cancer. McCain’s father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), died from brain cancer in 2018 at 81 years old.
“Who’s gonna tell her?” Coon posted later, referring to Trump killing an important source of funding to research glioblastoma — the same cancer that killed Meghan McCain’s father — prompting the pundit to share her “heartbroken” and since-deleted reaction.
Whether Coon and McCain will ever make up remains to be seen. The “White Lotus” finale airs Sunday on HBO.