Hollywood actress slammed for mortifying video to Putin

Remember Gal Gadot’s “Imagine” video? This Hollywood actress just dethroned her as the queen of cringe with this bizarre plea to Vladimir Putin.

Gal Gadot has been dethroned as the queen of cringe.

On Thursday, actress AnnaLynne McCord posted a bizarre video pleading for peace between Russia and Ukraine that the internet lambasted as tone-deaf and likened to Gadot’s infamous 2020 Imagine video.

“Dear President Vladimir Putin, I’m so sorry that I was not your mother,” the former 90210 star began a spoken-word poem she tweeted.

Dear Mister President Vladimir Putin… pic.twitter.com/LbDFBHVWJf

— AnnaLynne McCord (@IAMannalynnemcc) February 24, 2022

McCord, 34, addressed the video to the Russian President after he ordered his troops to invade neighbouring Ukraine on Thursday.

“If I was a mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light,” she continued.

“Never would this story’s plight, the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nation sitting peaceful under the night sky. If I was your mother, the world would have been warm.”

McCord said she could not imagine the “soul-stealing pain” the authoritarian must have felt as a child to believe that he “lived in a cruel, unjust world”.

“If I was your mother, if the world was cold, I’d have died to make you warm … I’d have died to give you life,” she continued in the clip before stating that she “cannot believe” she was born “too late” to be Putin’s mother.

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Always a worrying start to a celebrity video …

Hoooooo boy.

“I know if I was your mother, that would be a start toward the awareness of what a powerful being of light you could be. I cannot believe I was born too late, in a different place.”

While some of the actress’ followers argued that she meant well, countless others were perplexed that she would post the video at the start of an already deadly war.

“This will definitely stop him! you are so strong and brave AnnaLynne McCord,” one Twitter user sarcastically wrote, while another joked, “Just sing Imagine next time. It’s easier than whatever this is.”

McCord (third from right) is best known from the 90210 reboot.

Over on Instagram, one user joked, “Gal Gadot’s crown just slipped a little,” while others offered McCord some notes on her prose.

“You gon have to up your rhyme game if you tryna stop a war … this ain’t no lullaby booboo,” one person wrote.

World leaders have been condemning the Russian leader over the unprovoked attack, with US President Joe Biden saying the move came “without justification or necessity” as he announced new sanctions and export restrictions against Moscow.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission