Jamie Lee Curtis refuses to be silent.
The Oscar winner spoke out against the Trump administration Thursday morning as she helped non-profit Project Angel Food unveil its new The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Kitchen & Campus in Hollywood.
“Every day I think I’m not going to be shocked anymore and then I’m shocked,” Curtis told me. “It’s just inhuman. It is inhuman the way this administration is treating its citizens and its constituents and people in need. It’s an abhorrence what they’re doing. The ICE situation is out of control. It’s simply a distraction so that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein files.”
Curtis is the latest in a slew of celebrities who have condemned ICE’s enforcement tactics. Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Finneas and Kehlani were among those who blasted the federal agency and called for support of immigrants in the U.S. during the Grammys on Sunday.
“I’m angrier probably that I’ve ever been and more turned on to the need to do what we’re doing,” Curtis said.
Just moments before talking to the press, Curtis delivered fiery remarks at the podium, calling for unity and shouting out the community activism taking place in Minnesota. “We’re only going to get shit done if we do it together and defy these motherfuckers,” she said to applause.
Jamie Lee Curtis speaks at the unveiling of Project Angel Food’s new campus in Hollywood, delivering a fiery call for unity and shouting out the community in Minnesota.
“We’re only going to get s*ht done if we do it together and defy these motherf*kers.” pic.twitter.com/kCGRBcJnoK
Curtis is a longtime supporter of Project Angel Food. The organization started decades ago as a meal-delivery service for people with HIV and AIDS. It now serves 1.5 million medically tailored meals annually to 7,152 clients with critical and life-threatening illness throughout Los Angeles.
Curtis and television impresario Chuck Lorre serve as co-chairs of Project Angel Food’s Rise to the Challenge capital campaign.
“See what sitcoms can do,” Lorre cracked. “Come on, right? I’m very grateful and honored to be a part of this.”
Looking up at his name on the building, Lorre joked, “I’m starting to feel uncomfortably like [billionaire media businessman and philanthropist] Haim Saban. Not to cast dispersion but a smaller font would have been good.”
Kidding aside, Lorre recalled being introduced to Project Angel Food. “They have a policy which struck me deeply which is ‘food is medicine.’ Not food is calories, but food is medicine. Food that nourishes and brings health,” he said. “It meant a lot to me because as a much younger man I was very ill, and nutrition actually turned it around so I know something about how important it is to be fed properly.”
The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation donated $10 million for the construction of the new $51.5 million campus. In January 2025, the foundation also gave $250,000 toward Project Angel Food’s efforts to help people affected by the Southern California wildfires.
Project Angel Food CEO Richard Ayoub also announced at the unveiling that Lorre has committed an additional dollar-for-dollar matching grant of $1.5 million.
The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Kitchen & Campus also includes the Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest Kitchen Volunteer Center, dedicated to Richard Frank and George Lowe, two of Curtis’ friends who died during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
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