Shailene Woodley defends sharing Melania Trump’s statement regarding Trump assassination attempt

Shailene Woodley has addressed the backlash she faced for sharing Melania Trump’s statement about Donald Trump’s assassination attempt.

The Divergent star, 32, made headlines in July for posting Melania’s open letter to her Instagram Story.

Asked in a new interview with Bustle if she felt her actions were “misunderstood,” Woodley responded affirmatively, explaining that she had shared the post because she found it to be a “beautiful message of human compassion.”

“I read it and I was like, ‘This is so beautiful.’ I was in circles of people that I deeply respect – friends, colleagues, progressive, very intelligent thinkers, shakers and movers – and many of them were saying, ‘He missed! F***ing assassin missed! Maybe it was a setup. Maybe it was a conspiracy.’ I was going, ‘Have we forgotten that two human lives were taken?’ Two people died. That is sad. That is devastating. I could not understand how people were speaking about something with such passion for death,” the Big Little Lies alum said.

Woodley, who is a passionate environmentalist and previous Bernie Sanders supporter, said she only posted the first page of Melania’s statement “because the second page was more political.”

“The first page was very much like, ‘Look, underneath the political mask is a man, a grandpa, who comes home to his children, his grandchildren, and plays music. The man underneath that mask is my husband,’” Woodley said.

“I posted that letter because I thought it was a beautiful message of human compassion, and then I forgot about it because I have a life and I don’t live for what social media says,” she continued. “Then a week later, I got a text from a friend that said, ‘Are you OK?’ I Googled my name, because I’m like, ‘Oh f***, what