Jessie Buckley Clarifies Her Cat Comments, Claims She's Really a 'Lover of Cats'

Jessie Buckley is clarifying the comments that she made about cats, after she went viral for telling a story about making her now-husband rehome his cats.

The Oscar-nominated actress told the story back in November 2025, but it went viral in the final days of Oscars voting.

“I don’t like cats… cats are mean,” she said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “My husband, when I started dating him, he had two cats. This is bad so I’m going to get canceled. But one of the cats was like, a pedigree model bitch.