Sydney Sweeney Addressed Backlash to Mom's Birthday Party Pics and Growing Up Around Addiction

glamour.com:

deserved all the internet backlash she got for posting pictures from her mom's 60th-birthday party—an event some of Sweeney's relatives attended wearing MAGA hats and Blue Lives Matter T-shirts—is not a debate I have the emotional fortitude to wade into at this time.

Sweeney doesn't really seem like she has the energy for this conversation either, but she did address the controversy in her recent profile.

The hullabaloo all started when Sweeney uploaded a carousel of pics from her mother's “hoedown”-themed birthday party, and some of the Euphoria actor's followers noticed some telltale red caps in the background of one of the videos.

was swift and brutal, leading her to , “You guys this is wild. An innocent celebration for my moms milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention.