‘Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Torched For Tirade Linking Covid-19 Vaccines To Actor’s Death

Actor Zachary Levi has faced significant backlash after he posted an hour-long rant to Instagram on Sunday in which he claimed that the late actor Gavin Creel’s death was due to the Covid-19 vaccine.

Creel, 48, died on September 30 after a prolonged battle with a rare form of cancer. However, Levi insisted that Creel “would still be alive right now” had he not been vaccinated.

The theory that the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to cancer has been debunked multiple times over by a variety of accredited institutes.

Levi claimed he was honoring Creel’s memory by discussing the subject. “I didn’t even know what to type,” he said. “How do I how do I honor my friend? And if I just write what a wonderful man that he was and how talented he was, he was so talented, but that’s not honoring him if, deep down, I think that he’d still be alive right now. Because he should, and that, to me, is honoring him, talking about it.”

However, Levi did also admit that he might be “wrong” about the Covid vaccine being the cause of Creel’s cancer.

“We all have these different ideas and different opinions about what’s true and what’s not. I get that, and I do believe I have just enough humility to recognize that — even though I feel very convicted of what I believe in — I could be wrong,” he said. “I don’t go jump down their throats and get in their DMs and make them feel shamed or try to shame them because I at least have enough humility to recognize, ‘Wait a minute, I could be totally wrong. They could be right.'”

In response to his backlash for his false information, Levi plowed on, “Moreover, for all of you out there who thought foolishly, ‘Oh, this’ll get him to change his mind. This will get him to not vote and to recant what he said and come back to the other side.’ Are you nuts? Are you nuts that you would think that…trying to shame me into believing what you believe is gonna do anything to get me closer to what you believe?”

Actor Norbert Leo Butz commented on the video that he was “utterly heartbroken” by Levi’s tribute to Creel. “So incredibly disappointed,” he wrote. “Really tried to give you the benefit here. Made it halfway through, which was hard as hell.”

He continued, “Utterly heartbroken, as [Creel] would have been, that you felt the need to use his life and legacy to promote this awful platform.”

Levi has become increasingly outspoken about his views in recent months.