She wrote: \u201cHoly s*** I did not know all that insane s*** Ms. Bardot stood for. Obvs I do not condone this.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery disappointing to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
After rising to fame in films like And God Created Woman, Bardot \u2013 who is regarded as an icon of French cinema \u2013 faced her share of scandals and controversy.<\/p>\n
In 1992, she married politician Bernard d\u2019Ormale, who was convicted of racism and inciting racial hatred at least six times.<\/p>\n
Bardot herself was fined 30,000 francs by a French court in 2000 for inciting racial hatred in her 1999 book Le Carre de Pluton.<\/p>\n
She wrote in the book: \u201cMy land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her 2003 book Un Cris dans le Silence, she referred to the LGBTQ+ community as \u201cfairground freaks\u201d who were partly to blame for the \u201cdestruction\u201d of French culture.<\/p>\n
And in 2018, she told Paris Match magazine that the #MeToo movement was \u201chypocritical, ridiculous and uninteresting\u201d.<\/p>\n
In comments translated from French, she added: \u201cThis takes the place of important themes that could be discussed. I have never been the victim of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I found it charming to be told that I was beautiful or that I had a nice little a**. This kind of compliment is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bardot quit acting at the age of 39 to focus on animal rights campaigning and political activism.<\/p>\n
Following her death, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \u201cHer films, her voice, her dazzling fame, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne – Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom. A French existence, a universal radiance. She moved us. We mourn a legend of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Marine Le Pen, the French far-right politician previously praised by the late star, hailed Bardot as an \u201cexceptional woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
Brigitte Bardot. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
She wrote: \u201cA woman who chose to break with an incredible career to devote herself to the animals she defended until her last breath with inexhaustible energy and love. She was incredibly French: free, untamable, whole. She will be greatly missed by us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the city of Saint-Tropez \u2013 where Bardot lived \u2013 mourned their \u201cmost radiant ambassador\u201d.<\/p>\n
A statement on behalf of the coastal resort read: \u201cAn icon of French cinema and an international figure, Brigitte Bardot will forever be associated with Saint-Tropez, of which she was the most radiant ambassador. Through her presence, her personality, and her aura, she left her mark on the history of our town and helped to make Saint-Tropez shine across the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrigitte Bardot now belongs to the collective memory of Saint-Tropez, which we must preserve. She will continue to inhabit the soul of our town.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She wrote: \u201cHoly s*** I did not know all that insane s*** Ms. Bardot stood for. Obvs I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3376,74,62242,125544,127390,75015,430,88062,127389,6435,156,20866,4507,111,139,5006,69,90,17096,88063,20838,21539],"class_list":["post-209030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-backtracks","tag-bardot","tag-bardots","tag-brigitte","tag-celebrities","tag-chappell","tag-condone","tag-does","tag-entertainment","tag-insisted","tag-late","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-paying","tag-roan","tag-tribute","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}