‘Hillbilly Elegy’ star Glenn Close pokes fun at Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ remarks

Actress Glenn Close poked fun at Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) controversial “childless cat ladies” comment in an Instagram post on Sunday.

Close, who starred as Vance’s strong-willed grandmother in the film adaptation of Vance’s popular memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” posted a photo with her own cat, Eve, knocking Vance for his past remarks.

“Eve would have left a bleeding mouse head in the bed of anyone who criticized any kind of lady with a CAT!” Close wrote.

Close last week knocked Vance for the same remark while also criticizing his support for states’ right to pass restrictive abortion laws.

In that post, she included a meme of a health care provider tending to a young girl in a hospital bed saying, “Sorry Sally, This is Texas, you’ll have to keep your daddy’s baby” — a reference to Texas’s abortion ban, which does not allow for rape or incest exceptions.

“We sure wouldn’t want you to end up childless with cats!” the post continued.

Close was widely lauded for her performance as the family matriarch in the film version of Vance’s bestselling memoir. In the process of filming the movie, Close met Vance and some members of his family, including his mother. Vance’s grandmother, Bonnie Blanton Vance — known as “Mamaw” — on whom Close’s role is based, died in 2005.

Vance has faced intense backlash recently since a 2021 clip resurfaced showing the senator questioning Vice President Harris’s leadership skills in an interview, citing her lack of biological children.

“We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats,” Vance said in a Fox News interview in 2021. He added that the Democrats are “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

He noted that he was referring to Harris, as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Vance has since accused Democrats of taking the remarks out of context, saying Democrats are “explicitly antichild and antifamily,” and that “they’ve encouraged young families not to have children at all, because of concerns over climate change.”

“So this is not a criticism, and was never a criticism, of everybody without children. That is a lie of the left. It is a criticism of the increasingly antiparent and antichild attitude of the left,” Vance added.