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Former Mandalorian star Gina Carano gave her first on-air interview since she was fired from the Disney+ show after posting conservatives views on social media.

"I've been through so much, and I've seen so much now, clearly, of the bullying that's been taking place, and I saw it before ... I'm not the only one that's ever been bullied by this company, and I know that so deeply. I could share a story which would turn things around in the media, but I can't because it would sell out a friend ... Everyone is afraid of losing their job," she told conservative media host Ben Shapiro in an interview aired Sunday.

Carano was fired by Lucasfilm, which produces the popular Mandalorian series, earlier this month after comparing the treatment of Republicans today to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany in an Instagram post that has since been deleted.

Carano, who is also a former MMA fighter, has been a supporter of former President Donald Trump, voiced views against face masks, and signaled that she believes there was fraud in the 2020 presidential election.


She added during the interview Sunday that she could feel for months that she was targeted and was facing a possible firing from the show.

"You know how boxers head-hunt sometimes and forget to go for the body? I feel like Disney or Lucasfilm or whoever it is, just certain people at that company ... I feel like I've been being head-hunted ... They've been all over me, and they've been watching me like a hawk, and I'm watching people on the same production, and they can say everything they want, and that's where I had a problem. I had a problem because I wasn't going along with the narrative."

She added that she was also accidentally sent an email from a Disney employee after her social media posts.


“They accidentally sent me an email, which was very enlightening, so I knew. I knew they were paying attention. I know there were some people who went to bat for me, but I know that they didn’t win out at the end.”

Despite the pushback over her conservative views on social media, she said she was “going to go down swinging” and “stay true to myself.”

“I was prepared at any point to be let go, because I’ve seen this happen to so many people. I’ve seen the looks on their faces. I’ve seen the bullying that takes place, and so when this started, they point their guns at you, and you know it’s only a matter of time. I’ve seen it happen to so many people, and I just thought to myself (…) ‘you’re coming for me, I know you are.’ They’re making it very obvious through their employees who were coming for me, and so I was like, ‘I’m going to go down swinging, and I’m going to stay true to myself.’”

Carano partnered with Shapiro’s Daily Wire after her firing for a movie she will make, which she described as “helping make one of my dreams … come true.”

She reflected on how she felt when Shapiro contacted her after the firing, saying she could not “buckle” under Hollywood’s pressure.
“When you called, my body is still shaking. It’s devastating, but the thought of this happening to anybody else, especially to somebody who could not handle this the way I can, no, they don’t get to do that. They don’t get to make people feel like that (….), and if I buckle, it’ll make it OK for these companies, who have a history of lying, to be lying and to do this to other people, and they’ve done it to other people, and I’m not going down without a fight,” she said.

Disney did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.