Amy Schumer says she’s received death threats from people who didn’t like her joke about Kirsten Dunst at the Oscars last month.
As Schumer explained in a“We talked beforehand … we all worked that out together,” she said, echoing anin her Instagram story clarifying that it was a choreographed bit, and that she “wouldn’t disrespect that queen like that.”
However, some people didn’t understand that Dunst and Plemons were in on the joke, and took their protests to the extreme.“I got death threats,” Schumer said. “They were so bad, that the Secret Service reached out to me about that bit. I’m like, ‘I think you have the wrong number. This is Amy, not Will.’ … The misogyny is unbelievable.”
Schumer said the Los Angeles Police Department also contacted her because the threats “were that serious and that many.”
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