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TheBad Momsactress, 38, and husband Ashton Kutcher launched acampaign to fundraise and supporthumanitarian efforts in Ukraine, where Kunis was born, surpassing $20 million of their $30 million goal in under a week.
“I very much have always felt like an American. People were like, ‘Oh, you’re so Eastern European.’ I was like, ‘I’m so L.A. What do you mean?’ " she joked. “My whole life I was like L.A. through and through. Then this happens — and mind you, we have friends in Ukraine, Ash and I went and met with [President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy right before COVID. I’ve been there, but have always considered myself very much an American.”
“This happens,” she continued, “and I can’t express or explain what came over me, but all of a sudden I genuinely was, I was like, oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out. It was the weirdest feeling.”
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“Nobody is going to break us, we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians,“Zelenskyy told the European Unionin a speech in the early days of the fighting, adding, “Life will win over death. And light will win over darkness.”
Kunis told Shriver, “I don’t think that we need to consider the people of Russia an enemy. I do really want to emphasize that. I don’t think that that’s being said enough in the press. I think that there’s now, ‘If you’re not with us, you’re against us’ mentality. I don’t want people to conflate the two problems that are happening. I don’t think it’s the people of Russia. I don’t want there to be a thing of ‘all Russians are horrible human beings.’ I don’t want that to be the rhetoric. I do encourage people to look at it from the perspective of, ‘It’s the people in power, not the people themselves.’ "
The full interview with Kunis will be released this Sunday via Shriver’s Sunday Papernewsletter.
source: people.com
