Family Ties star Justine Bateman says she feels 'relief' after Trump election victory as friends turn their back on her

Family Ties star Justine Bateman has revealed that close friends of hers have turned their back on her after she came out and attacked the Biden administration. 

Just days after Trump was formally crowned the next commander-in-chief, Bateman posted on X that she was 'decompressing from walking on eggshells for four years'.

In a lengthy post to her social media, the 58-year-old said she had found the past four years under President Biden to be 'an almost intolerable period'. 

She said she had found it 'suffocating' and branded it a 'un-American period' saying she thought only 'permitted behavior and speech was allowed'. 

Bateman, who is the older sister of Jason Bateman, wrote: 'Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one's professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. 

'Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. Their destruction was displayed in the 'town square' of social media for all to see.' 

In an interview with The New York Post following her post, she said she was told by people 'oh Justine, I didn't know you were a Nazi'. 

She said: 'I did have friends say, "I love you, call me anytime, but I have to unfollow you" or "I have to distance myself from you online, publicly".'

Bateman continued: 'So the fact that people have to distance themselves from me … Look, I still love them, that's fine. 

'But every time they do that, and I'm also talking about strangers now, they absolutely prove my point.'

She told the outlet that she was in Washington DC on the night of the election and watched as Trump won battleground states to solidify his return to the White House. 

'I was surprised to feel, physically feel, a relief in my body,' she added. 'I didn't realize how uncomfortable the last four years had felt until I felt that balloon deflate.' 

According to Bateman she first felt the air in the balloon start to release when Elon Musk took over Twitter. 

Bateman said that she was glad the 'woke era' was over, saying: 'That era of not being able to question things is over. That woke police, that's over.'

While clearing favoring Trump, she told USA Today that she wasn't going to reveal who she actually cast her vote for. 

She told the outlet: 'I'm not going to play the game. I'm not going to talk about the way I voted in my life. It's irrelevant. It's absolutely irrelevant.  

'To me, all I'm doing is expressing that I feel that spiritually, there has been a shift, and I'm very excited about what is coming forth. And frankly, reaffirming free speech is good for everybody.'

Bateman was a sitcom star in the 1980s on Family Ties, where she played Michael J. Fox's older sister Mallory, and has been in the limelight since she was a teenager.

Aside from Family Ties, Bateman's work also includes Satisfaction, Men Behaving Badly, Californication, The TV Set, and Desperate Housewives.

She has since pivoted into the role of a director. Her film directorial debut, Violet, starring Olivia Munn and Justin Theroux, premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.

Bateman has previously spoken out about ignoring Hollywood beauty standards and embracing her wrinkles in interviews. 

The actress told 60 Minutes Australia that she didn't realize there was an obsession with her natural face until she Googled herself one day.

'I googled my name Justine Bateman, and an autocomplete came up which said "looks old," and I was like, "What!"'

Later when asked whether it was possible for people to find aging 'beautiful', she responded with, 'I just don't give a s**t. I think I look rad, I think my face represents who I am. I like it.'