General Hospital Star Nancy Lee Grahn Says She Refuses to Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live! Episode Featuring Carrie Underwood

Nancy Lee Grahn is temporarily changing the channel on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

After Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan appeared on the late-night show on Jan. 23 to discuss season 24 of American Idol, the General Hospital star said on social media that she wouldn’t be watching that night’s episode.

“See ya next week @jimmykimmel,” Grahn, 69, wrote on Threads, where she frequently shares her views on political issues. “I refuse to even look at @carrieunderwood.”

Underwood, 42, has largely kept her personal politics private. But she performed “America the Beautiful” inside the Capitol Rotunda during President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025.

In the comments under Grahn’s post, comedian Kathy Griffin joined other Threads users in voicing support for the actress’ stance.

“Yeah, no love for maga Carrie. It’s not just about political disagreements,” Griffin, 65, wrote, while another user added, “Boycott Underwood, wherever & whenever. Sorry Jimmy.”

As Grahn’s remarks began drawing wider attention, she later clarified that her message wasn’t aimed at attacking the host.

“Truth matters,” she wrote alongside an article framing her comments as a “slam” of Kimmel, 58. “I LOVE Jimmy Kimmel & watch him every night. I would never ‘slam’ him.”

“I simply said I would watch him next week because I didn’t want to look at Carrie Underwood (for obvious reasons) who was his guest that night,” she continued. “Come on, guys, I’m not worth the clickbait.”

Beyond Underwood’s inauguration performance, some fans have previously speculated that her 2018 song “The Bullet” carried political meaning, pointing to lyrics such as: “You can blame it on hate or blame it on guns / But mamas ain’t supposed to bury their sons.”

However, in a 2019 interview with The Guardian, Underwood said she tries to avoid public political alignment because it’s rarely as simple as people want it to be.

“I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins,” she said at the time. “It’s crazy. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.”

“Immediately, people said, ‘Oh, you have a song about gun control!’ It was more about the lives that were changed by something terrible happening,” she added. “And it does kind of bug me when people take a song, or take something I said, and try to pigeonhole or force me to pick a side or something. It’s a discussion — a long discussion.”