Amy Schumer received death threats!
Amy Schumer, a comedian and one of the hosts of this year’s Oscars, said recently that she received death threats for one joke at the awards.
Amy Schumer, a comedian and one of the hosts of this year’s Oscars, said recently that she received death threats for one joke at the awards. It's a joke about Kirsten Dunst, admitted the comedian on Howard Stern's radio show The Howard Stern Show.
In that joke, the comedian called the actress a "seat filler", which is the name for people employed to fill seats in the audience when someone gets up from their chair to go, for example, on stage.
"So when you go to the bathroom or if you go to cry because you didn't win anything... actually, you know what? I'm just going to show you what seat fillers do," Schumer began her joke. Then she went straight to Kirsten Dunst, took her hand, and said, "OK, this is a seat filler. Can you get up, honey? Maybe you should go to the bathroom?"
Schumer then took her place and turned to her husband, actor Jesse Plemons, who told her it was his wife. "I received death threats. It was so horrible that I was even approached by the secret services. I thought at first that they had replaced me, that it was Will. But no, they said, you are receiving death threats," the actress said on the radio show.
She noted that she had previously announced to everyone on whose account she was joking that she would do so, precisely in order to avoid potentially embarrassing situations and surprises. So Dunst and Plemons knew this was going to happen, and they agreed to play their part in that sketch.
By the way, Amy had serious surgery last year. Amy Schumer is one of many women who have endometriosis. Since she can cause life-threatening problems, the actress had to undergo surgery because of which she will no longer be able to have children. Endometriosis is a chronic disease in which the tissue of the uterine mucosa (endometrium) appears in places in the body where it should not be, or anywhere outside the uterus.
