Entertainment- Former GOP congressional candidate Robby Starbuck said Megan Fox forced her sons to wear "girls clothes."
- The "Jennifer's Body" actress refuted Starbuck's claim, and called him a "clout chaser."
Megan Fox spoke out after former GOP congressional candidate Robby Starbuck said that Megan Fox forced her sons to "wear girls clothes" and accused her of "child abuse."
Starbuck tweeted out the comments on June 8, alongside a paparazzi pic of Fox and her three children Noah, 10, Bodhi, 9, and Journey, 6.
"We used to live in the same gated community and our kids played at the park," Starbuck wrote. "I saw 2 of them have a full on breakdown saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls clothes as their nanny tried to console them. It's pure child abuse. Pray for them."
"I really don't want to give you this attention because clearly youre a clout chaser," Fox wrote on Instagram on Sunday in response. "But let me teach you something…irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame - never use children as leverage or social currency. especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense."
"Exploiting my child's gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe," her caption continued. "I have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times, yet I'm still here. you fucked with the wrong witch."
In 2022, Starbuck ran and lost the congressional race to represent Tennessee's 5th Congressional District, despite endorsements from right-wing stalwarts like Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and Rep. Thomas Massie. Before his political career, Starbuck was a music video director who worked with Gucci Mane, Akon, and Megadeath, among others.
Fox's ex-husband and the father of her three children, Brian Austin Green, told TMZ on Saturday that Starbuck had conjured a "totally bogus story."
"There are only a few people in their world that can actually verify wether [sic] or not a story like this is true, and I can tell you with absolute certainty it is not," he said. "This person trying to claim this is true is a perfect example of someone with selfish motives that does not care about negatively affecting a parent-child relationship."
Green went on to say: "As a society, I hope we continue to push to be better. This Robby Starbuck person is full of shit, and I have no idea who he is."
Fox has previously spoken out about how she and Green intend to raise their children as gender-neutral as possible.
In a 2021 appearance on "The Talk," she said that their son Noah will sometimes wear dresses: "And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, 'Boys don't wear dresses,' or 'Boys don't wear pink.'"
"So we're going through that now, where I'm trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says," she told the hosts.
Fox said she's also extremely reticent to share images of her kids on the internet and last posted pictures of them in 2018. In a 2022 interview with Glamour UK, she said: "I can't control the way other people react to my children. I can't control the things that other children — that they go to school with — have been taught and then repeat to them."
"That's also why I don't really put my children on Instagram or social media," she continued. "I'm so proud of my kids. Noah is an unbelievable pianist. He can learn Mozart's concerto in an hour. I want people to see that, but I also don't want the world to have access to this gentle soul and say all the things that we all know they're going to say."