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. And she staged like a coup against me. I’d come home and there’d just be like, poo on the pillow. And I was like, ‘It’s me or the cats.’ I won.”

Now, Jessie is clarifying the comments.

Jessie opened up about the viral story while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (March 5) in New York City.

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“I need to clarify something for all cat lovers in the world,” Jessie said. “I am a lover of cats. I woke up this morning to the world thinking I really don’t love cats and it really weighed on me all day. I felt sick. I want to just tell cat people, I actually auditioned to be a cat once. And there’s been misconceptions because of an interview that I did. They asked me if I was a dog or a cat [person] and I’m thinking I’m probably a quarter cat and three-quarters dog.”

Jimmy said that he’s 100% a dog person.

“Anyways, I love cats,” Jessie added.

Jessie confirmed that she auditioned for the Cats musical movie.

After making a grimace face, she added, “I’m making that face because honestly, I gave the worst audition of my life. Well, how do you be a cat?!… It was so hot. I was sweating. I was like licking my paw… Obviously, I didn’t get it.”

An Oscar winner just recently went viral for her dog rehoming story.