Jamie Lee Curtis has slammed cruel trolls who have sent death threats to her transgender daughter Ruby and talked about her desire to see change in society.
The Halloween star, 63, said people "want to annihilate" her daughter and other members of the LGBTQ+ community, adding that she is using her voice to combat those who "haven't learned from fascism".
Jamie Lee shares Ruby and her younger sister Annie with her husband Christopher Guest. Ruby, 26, came out as transgender in 2020 and said her parents have been "so accepting".
Opening up about the threats, Jamie Lee said: "I have a trans daughter. There are threats against her life just [for] her existence as a human being."
"There are people that want to annihilate her and people like her.
"The level of hatred ... [It's] as if we haven't learned from fascism, we haven't learned what the result of that is: The extermination of human beings.
"That is terrifying," she added in an interview with Spain's Cadena SER radio.
The scream queen also had a message for others and said: "So Jamie Lee Curtis is scared, and you should be too. And Jamie Lee Curtis has a voice, and she's trying to use it. And you should too.
"And that's how we change things. We think about them, we learn about them and then we use our voices to bring attention to them and fight against them."
Ruby, who recently married her wife in a cosplay themed wedding, said it was "intimidating" to come out as trans but insisted she wasn't worried about her parents' reaction.
"It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn't know," she told People in 2021.
"It was intimidating — but I wasn't worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life.
"Like, people will still remember me for who I was, but I haven't changed that. They finally get to see who I've always been, you know, inside, but now I finally get to show it on the outside."
In her Cadena SER interview, Jamie Lee said she is taking her daughter's decision seriously and is currently "learning new terminology".
"I am new at it. I am not someone who is pretending to know much about it. And I'm going to blow it, I'm going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes.
"If one person reads this, sees a picture of Ruby and me and says, 'I feel free to say this is who I am,' then it's worth it," she added.
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