Family Ties star Justine Bateman has revealed that her close friends have turned their backs on her after she came out and attacked the Biden administration.
Just days after Trump was formally crowned the next commander in chief, Bateman posted on X that he was “decompressing after walking on eggshells for four years.”
In a lengthy post on her social media, the 58-year-old said she had found President Biden’s last four years “an almost intolerable period.”
He said he had found it “suffocating” and called it an “un-American period,” saying he thought only “permissible behavior and expression were allowed.”
Bateman, older sister of Jason Bateman, wrote: ‘Total intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly.
‘Those who spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. “Its destruction was displayed in the ‘town square’ of social media for all to see.”
In an interview with The New York Post After it was published, she said people told her, “Oh, Justine, I didn’t know you were a Nazi.”
She said: “I’ve had friends tell me, ‘I love you, call me anytime, but I have to unfollow you’ or ‘I have to distance myself from you online, publicly.’
Just days after Trump was formally crowned the next commander in chief, Bateman posted on X that he was “decompressing after walking on eggshells for four years.”
In a lengthy post on her social media, the 58-year-old said she found the last four years under President Biden, seen here, “an almost intolerable period.”
Bateman continued: ‘So the fact that people have to distance themselves from me… Look, I still love them, it’s okay.
“But every time they do that, and now I’m talking about strangers too, they absolutely prove my point.”
She told the outlet that she was in Washington DC on election night and watched as Trump won key states to solidify his return to the White House.
“I was surprised to feel, physically feel, a relief in my body,” he added. “I didn’t realize how uncomfortable the last four years had been until I felt the balloon deflate.”
According to Bateman, he first felt the air in the balloon starting to release when Elon Musk took over Twitter.
Bateman said she was glad the “woke era” was over, saying, “That era of not being able to question things is over.” That woke up the police, it’s over.
While coming out in favor of Trump, he said USA today that he was not going to reveal who he really voted for.
She told the outlet: ‘I’m not going to play the game. I’m not going to talk about the way I voted in my life. It’s irrelevant. It is absolutely irrelevant.
‘For me, all I’m doing is expressing that I feel like spiritually there has been a change and I’m very excited about what’s to come. And, frankly, reaffirming freedom of speech is good for everyone.”
Bateman appears here in her role as Mallory Keaton on the show Family Ties which ran from 1982-1989.
She played Mallory, Michael J. Fox’s older sister, on the show; (L to R) Fox, Bateman, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter Birney and Tina Yothers in a 1982 promotional photo.
Justine is the older sister of actor Jason Bateman. The sibling duo appear at the 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20, 1987.
Bateman was a comedy star in the 1980s on Family Ties, where she played Mallory, Michael J. Fox’s older sister, and has been in the spotlight since she was a teenager.
In addition to Family Ties, Bateman’s work also includes Satisfaction, Men Behaving Badly, Californication, The TV Set and Desperate Housewives.
She has since taken on the role of director. Her feature directorial debut, Violet, starring Olivia Munn and Justin Theroux, premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.
Bateman has previously spoken in interviews about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles.
The actress told 60 Minutes Australia that she didn’t realize there was an obsession with her natural face until she searched Google one day.
“I Googled my name Justine Bateman and an autocomplete popped up saying ‘seems old’ and I was like, ‘What!'”
Later, when asked if it was possible that people find aging “beautiful”, she replied: “I just don’t give a damn.” I think I look great, I think my face represents who I am. I like it.’