‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Star Glenn Close Gets In A Dig At JD Vance’s “Childless Cat Ladies” Comment
Glenn Close, who played JD Vance‘s grandmother in the film version of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, has a comment about the Republican presidential nominee’s attack on “childless cat ladies.”
Close posted a photo on Instagram with her cat and the message, “Eve would have left a bleeding mouse head in the bed of anyone who criticized any kind of lady with a CAT! #abyssiniancats.”
Vance’s 2016 memoir was a best seller, as it shed light on the despair of the working class on Ohio and Kentucky. The book was turned into a Netflix movie in 2020, directed by Ron Howard, as Vance launched a political career. He won a U.S. Senate seat in 2022, before Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate last month.
But since then, a clip has surfaced of a 2021 interview that Vance gave to then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want make the rest of the country miserable, too,” Vance answered. “And it’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.” Harris has stepchildren from her marriage to Doug Emhoff.
Vance has said that his comments were not a policy proposal but a “thought experiment.” He said that he was being critical of Democrats for not being “pro-family.”
