The Boys star Erin Moriarty fires back at Megyn Kelly's plastic surgery accusations

The Boys star Erin Moriarty is firing back at Megyn Kelly after the former Fox News host accused her of getting extreme plastic surgery.

In a lengthy statement posted to Instagram on Friday, Moriarty — who plays superhero Starlight on Prime Video's R-rated comic book series — slammed Kelly's comments on a recent episode of The Megyn Kelly Show as "bullying" and "disgustingly false."

"This is something I truly never anticipated writing," Moriarty began her two-slide post. "We're all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things... To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner — to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified."

During a Jan. 17 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, Kelly aired a segment with The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles calling plastic surgery a "social illness." Kelly accused Moriarty of being an example of an "addiction" to augmenting your face. "More and more young women are doing this," Kelly said. "It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself... I find it like a sign of mental illness. I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, 'Please don’t do this.'"

Kelly displayed an image of the star that she claimed was "relatively recent" and called a "nice, beautiful, natural gal" before describing how shocked she was to see a newer photo of Moriarty. "I thought it was just an AI-generated face... but apparently it’s real," she added. "She’s done this to herself."

In her post on Friday, Moriarty said that the "before" photo Kelly showed was actually a much older picture. "Megyn used a photo taken 'a year ago' according to her, that had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE (I'm about to turn 30) as an example (maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds)," Moriarty wrote. She added that the "after" photo Kelly claimed as proof that she had plastic surgery was from when she "got my make up done that day and it involves major contouring and I remember leaving and feeling pretty." (Moriarty has since deleted the photo from Instagram.)

"This is becoming harassment," Moriarty said. "This is becoming false news." The actor added that she's only keeping her Instagram account active so that others can read her statement, but "otherwise, consider it deactivated" as she's "horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment. It's broken my heart. You've broken my heart."

"Shame on you Megyn Kelly. Shame on you, Fox News (Vought incarnate)," Moriarty concluded. The Boys star later took to Instagram to correct her statement to note that Kelly is no longer with Fox News.

The star received support from some of her The Boys costars in the comments of the post. "Love you, Erin," Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell) wrote. "F--- the haters." Meanwhile Chace Crawford (The Deep) posted a red heart emoji.

Read Moriarty's full statement below:

This story has been updated to reflect a correction made by Moriarty.

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