A Controversial Old Tweet Is Resurfacing After Kirstie Alley's Death

Alley's 2018 tweet, "you had a good go at it... thanks for your input," reportedly came in response to the 2018 death of acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking at the age of 76 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), sometimes called Lou Gehrig's Disease, based on reporting by Snopes. Alley's post, now deleted, also featured a picture of Hawking with his birth and death date. In response to Alley's tweet, @GotEm_Coach wrote on Twitter, "It's as though Kirstie Alley has inserted herself into this to be final confirmation. It's so heartless in the least emotional way. I can't stop thinking about her writing it."

Though Alley never specifically acknowledged the controversy her first tweet elicited, she later tweeted what may seem like more conventional words of condolence regarding Hawking's death: "Probably one of the top 3 funniest people on the planet..beautiful mind," it read. Alley also seemingly referenced the Twitter fallout in another cryptic tweet: "Where do these strange swarms of people come from on Twitter .. like locusts only crispier."

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