Melissa McCarthy Slammed for Supporting Anti-Abortion Charity

Melissa McCarthy has been slammed for supporting an anti-abortion charity. The actress recently teamed up with HBO Max to launch a "20 Days of Kindness" campaign on behalf of her new film "Superintelligence." Through the initiative, they donated $20,000 to Exodus Cry, not knowing that the organization has a history of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ comments, according to People. Facing backlash, McCarthy took to social media on Thursday to apologize.

"Hi there. It has come to our attention that our 20 Days of Kindness, which is something — a kindness up that we started to kind of shine a light on 20 great charities — had one in there that, there's no other way to say it, we blew it," she said in a video shared to Instagram. "We made a mistake and we backed a charity that upon proper vetting, stands for everything that we do not."

The 50-year-old actress thanked the public for questioning the reasons for supporting the organization and explained that neither she nor HBO wanted to back a charity like Exodus Cry.

"We have pulled it," she said. "We are so incredibly grateful for you ringing the bell and helping us be better. We're sorry for our mistake. Oh boy, are we sorry for it. [I] can't believe that we missed it. And that's it."

McCarthy added that she hoped the mistake would not negatively impact the other charities "because they're really doing some amazing things and 20 Days of Kindness is really meant to shine the light on all of those wonderful charities. So, let the kindness continue," she continued, "and thank you. Thanks for the help, we really needed it."

HBO released a statement to TheWrap also addressing the matter.

"We were made aware of the issues surrounding Exodus Cry and have removed them from the list of partners associated with the 20 Days of kindness campaign," the network said.

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