The internet may not always be a euphoric place for Sydney Sweeney, but the 27-year-old star knows that keeping up on the online chatter is sometimes necessary. “I think it’s important to have a finger on the pulse of what people are saying,

Sydney Sweeney is speaking out for the first time nearly a month after her American Eagle ad erupted online. In her new Wall Street Journal cover story, the 27-year-old expressed her thoughts on the chatter surrounding her controversial campaigns.

Sweeney made headlines after internet users claimed her American Eagle denim campaign promoted eugenics and “Nazi propaganda” by using a play on the words “genes” and