Olympian and actor Gus Kenworthy isn't backing down from voicing his anti-ICE opinions, even after receiving a barrage of hateful messages.

Final week, the British American skier and actor shared a photograph that candidly expressed his ideas on the elevated presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers throughout the US. The picture included the phrases "F— ICE" written in urine within the snow. Days later, Kenworthy is explaining what motivated the publish and addressing a number of the "terrible" responses that the picture impressed.

In a Sunday Instagram video, Kenworthy shared that though he’s competing for Nice Britain on this 12 months's Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Video games, he cares deeply about what’s at present occurring throughout America. "I grew up within the U.S., that's the place I went to highschool. I did my first two Olympics for the U.S. and gained a silver medal for the U.S. That's the place I reside now, so yeah, I care in regards to the U.S. and I care about what's occurring there," Kenworthy started.

The American Horror Story: 1984 star then defined that since sharing the Feb. 6 publish, he has obtained a flood of threatening messages.

"Folks telling me to kill myself, threatening me, wishing that they'll get to see me blow my knee or break my neck throughout my occasions, calling me slurs… It's insane," Kenworthy recounted. "And perhaps that's the worth you pay for talking up and utilizing your platform, so perhaps this video is simply going to ask extra hate and vitriol. However I feel it’s essential to say what we really feel and get up for what we consider in and stand as much as injustice."

Praising fellow American athletes Hunter Hess and Mikaela Shiffrin for talking out amid political turmoil in the US, Kenworthy added, "I really feel like typically individuals neglect which you could love the U.S. and be proud to be an American and nonetheless suppose the nation can enhance… Simply since you love the usdoesn’t imply you stand with this administration and stand behind their politics and help the issues that they help as a result of I don't."

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The 2026 Winter Video games kicked off amid a fraught interval in U.S. politics, as protests proceed within the wake of ICE brokers fatally taking pictures Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis final month.

Crew USA Olympic halfpipe skier Hess admitted to having blended feelings about representing his nation within the Winter Video games, telling Reuters, "There's clearly rather a lot happening that I'm not the most important fan of, and I feel lots of people aren't. Simply because I'm carrying the flag doesn't imply I signify every thing that's happening within the U.S." Hess was swiftly branded a "actual loser" by President Donald Trump after talking out.

Equally, US Alpine skier Shiffrin referred to as out "world hardship and "violence," sharing her hope to show values of "inclusivity, range, and kindness" on the Olympics.

Getting express about his personal views on the matter, Kenworthy stated, "I don’t help ICE. And I feel it’s completely evil and terrible and terrifying. There have been US residents which have been murdered on the street, executed on the street. And the officers are basically performing with impunity as a result of their identities are coated. There’s no accountability. It’s actually scary."

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Kenworthy continued, "I feel overwhelmingly the vast majority of the individuals being focused are good individuals, hardworking individuals which are peaceful and haven’t any felony historical past and simply got here to the U.S. looking for a greater life. And that’s actually the muse story of the U.S."

He asserted, "We’re a county of immigrants and that's the American dream and I feel individuals neglect that typically."

Kenworthy, an overtly homosexual athlete, beforehand gained silver in ski slopestyle on the 2014 Winter Olympics whereas representing the US. In 2019, he switched to representing Nice Britain — and can also be doing in order he prepares to compete within the Males's freeski halfpipe occasion.

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