Betty White is the latest celebrity to speak out about the killing of Cecil the lion earlier this month in Zimbabwe.
“You don’t want to hear some of the things I want to do to that man,” the passionate animal activist told the Associated Press on Thursday.
The man she’s referring to is Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, who paid $55,000 to kill the beloved big cat while on a hunting trip.
Palmer released a statement earlier this week apologizing for shooting the animal, but the circumstances surrounding the killing of the lion, who was lured from a wildlife preserve, are now being investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CNN reports.
“It’s such a heartbreaker,” White, 93, added. “You can’t even talk about it, and to see this king of the jungle and personifying it in every way, this gorgeous creature. How can somebody do that?”
This article originally appeared on People.com
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