Actor Reese Witherspoon has come out in support of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “true leader” in handling the Christchurch shootings.
Legally Blond actor, Reese Witherspoon has taken to Twitter to show her support to New Zealand following the devastating Christchurch shootings on March 15. She also took time to praise Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her leadership.
“Thinking about @jacindaardern today. This is a leader that truly deserves our attention. Her compassion, her respect for multiculturalism, her clear leadership, her swift action to create new legislation in #NewZealand. Changing the course of history. This is TRUE LEADERSHIP,” she Tweeted on Monday morning (NZST).
Thinking about @jacindaardern today. This is a leader that truly deserves our attention. Her compassion, her respect for multiculturalism,her clear leadership, her swift action to create new legislation in #NewZealand. Changing the course of history. This is TRUE LEADERSHIP
— Reese Witherspoon (@ReeseW) March 24, 2019
The actor spent a fair amount of time in New Zealand while shooting the Disney film A Wrinkle In Time in 2017, The Herald reports.
The star previously had this message for New Zealanders in the wake of the shootings: “My heart goes out to the people of New Zealand. There are not enough prayers for such a senseless act of violence. Please know that I am here for you all while you grieve.”
American R&B singer, Alicia Keys, also recently took to social media sharing a picture of the Prime Minister wearing a hijab and hugging a woman affected by the Christchurch shootings. The ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ singer gave a “shout out” to Ardern saying: “Love and empathy are the only things that are going to push us forward.”
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She went on to say: “This picture is such a powerful representation of love and empathy” and encouraged her followers to “spread it today”.
Several world leaders have also come out in support of Ardern’s leadership during this time, with the New York times going as far as saying, “America deserves a leader as good as Jacinda Ardern.”
