Shailene Woodley defends sharing Melania Trump’s statement regarding Trump assassination attempt

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Shailene Woodley has addressed the backlash she faced for sharing Melania Trump’s statement about Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. Woodley, who is a passionate environmentalist and previous Bernie Sanders supporter, said she only posted the first page of Melania’s statement “because the second page was more political.” “The first page was very much like, ‘Look, underneath the political mask is a man, a grandpa, who comes home to his children, his grandchildren, and plays music. Really?’” Shailene Woodley and Donald Trump Woodley said the criticism “made me shake my head,” adding: “If is not coming through in the way that I’m intending, I’m not going to participate on social media. Following the incident, former First Lady Melania broke her silence regarding the murder attempt, making an impassioned plea for Americans to come “together as one.” “When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change,” she wrote in a statement shared on social media at the time.