Catherine Zeta-Jones criticised over comments about 12-year-old fan

Luis Guzmán, Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Netflix series Wednesday. Photo / Netflix

Catherine Zeta-Jones is in hot water with critics after she made comments about an interaction with an underage fan.

The Mask of Zorro star raised eyebrows in an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers after she mentioned meeting a 12-year-old at the driving range, the U.S. Sun reports.

“I was practising, and this really cute 12-year-old boy came up asking for my autograph, and it was like really cute,” she told Meyers.

“Then I went, ‘haha, when I’m 70, this cute little boy will be, like, 33′,“.

She went on to joke that “by that time, I’m sure it will be fine”.

While Meyers joked “as long as you know not to give them your number when they’re 12,” online commenters were quick to respond more seriously to the actress’s remarks.

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The clip was shared to TikTok, where critics suggested the story was inappropriate.

One commenter said, “I’m not liking the ‘oh he’ll be 30 by that time’ comment”.

“I just know she regretted saying that the second it left her mouth”, another read.

Zeta-Jones defended the comment to Meyers by referencing her marriage to Michael Douglas, with whom she has a fairly controversial age-gap of 25 years.

The pair first got together when she was 28 and he was 53.

They have now been married for 25 years, sharing two children together, Dylan Douglas, 25, and Carys Zeta Douglas, 22.

Zeta-Jones comments came while she was explaining how Netflix’s Wednesday has introduced her to a “new generation of fans”.

She plays the iconic role of Morticia Addams on the popular show, the mother of Jenna Ortega’s titular character Wednesday.

The 55-year-old said the role doesn’t mirror her relationship with daughter Carys, though she admitted “I did give her a side eye, and she went, ‘Don’t Morticia me’.”