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Zachary Levi slammed by Broadway star for politicizing Gavin Creel's death 'to promote' anti-vax stance: 'Utterly heartbroken'

Zachary Levi is being called out by Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz for claiming Broadway star Gavin Creel, who died from cancer last month, would still be alive had he not received the COVID-19 vaccine: 'So incredibly disappointed.'

In a comment on the video — which was an Instagram Live that Levi then post on his grid — Butz wrote that he was “so incredibly disappointed” by the Shazam star’s harmful claim that Creel would still be alive had he not received the COVID-19 vaccine. Levi noted that Creel was someone who looked after himself, ate well, and was physically fit until he was suddenly diagnosed with a rare form of sarcoma in July and died two months later. In the aftermath of Creel’s death, an increasingly emotional Levi explained that he received flak from people asking when he planned to post a tribute to his late costar.

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