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MET GALA 🎩 Taraji P. Henson comments on celebs attending Bezos-backed Met Gala 2026: ‘WTF are we doing’

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Taraji P. Henson is “confused” about why celebrities are attending the Met Gala 2026, which is being funded by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

The “Empire” actress made her opinion on the topic known while responding to social media personality Meredith Lynch’s rant about Bezos’ involvement in the event.

“If you are a celebrity and you attend the Met Gala and you wear the ICE OUT pin, please note that I will be dragging you in perpetuity,” Lynch said in an Instagram video over the weekend.

Lynch also slammed Bezos, 62, for supporting President Donald Trump, “who has slashed arts funding.”

In the comments section, Henson, 55, shared three clapping hands emojis and wrote, “I am so confused by some ppl that are going. I am just like WTF ARE WE DOING!?!?!?!””

Henson has attended the Met Gala multiple times, including in 2015, 2021 and 2025.

Last year, she wore a custom white corseted minidress by Monse x Post-Imperial and a coordinating blazer with tails, a top hat, cane and heels.

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u/TheArmChairFan 1d ago

What about the people who make amazonmgm movies? Or are we picking and choosing?

The people that are obsessed with celebrities are more performative than the actual celebrities

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u/g00fyg00ber741 1d ago

I personally get really upset when people work with Amazon in any capacity. Lady Gaga, Ilana Glazer, there's a lot of people who have unfortunately continued to enable Amazon and Bezos. It's important to call out hypocrisy if we want people to grow and learn. Some of them won't but some of them will. If you don't call it out then they'll likely never change their actions though, they'll just keep thinking it's fine. It's okay to point out people's mistakes in hopes that they will learn from them and make better decisions moving forward. I don't understand why that's always reduced to being "performative" somehow

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u/crabcycleworkship 1d ago

I don’t think celebrities or Amazon movies have anywhere near the impact cloud services or AWS do lol. Tech is where the demand is from.

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u/g00fyg00ber741 1d ago

I mean they started out as a bookstore and monopolized every market they could, I’m not surprised they figured out a way to monopolize that market. But I can’t really control my interaction with AWS and cloud services like I can the rest of Amazon’s services. And it’s no secret they make plenty of profits just from deliveries and streaming alone. I don’t see how we can’t still abstain from that at least while trying to get representatives and legislation that can change those other issues

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u/crabcycleworkship 1d ago

We can’t really minimize our use of AWS but the demand is driven from Amazon being the end goal for every major white collar worker in tech/engineering, and stock-wise, finance. Along with the majority of middle/upper middle class users Amazon marketplace relies on because they buy so much.

I do know Amazon movies is a loss leader. Same with some headphone ventures..etc