Jenny McCarthy has a lot to say about Dennis Leary’s controversial new book Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid – a book that ridicules autistic people.

The actress spoke to Access Hollywood labeling Leary “Stupid”. “Whoo! First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] Go kill him! Go yell at him.”

“This community has been through so much and to compare and use the word dumb-ass lazy with autism, it’s just not fair,” said McCarthy.

McCarthy’s comments may be the result of her first hand experience in raising a son with autism.

At the same time, Leary has issued a statement to Us Weekly claiming his writing had been misinterpreted.

“I thought I made my feelings about autism very clear: that I not only support the current rational approaches to the diagnoses and treatment of real autism but have witnessed it firsthand while watching very dear old friends raise a functioning autistic child,” his statement read.

“The bulk of the chapter deals with grown men who are either self-diagnosing themselves with low-level offshoots of the disease or wishing they could as a way to explain their failed careers and troublesome progeny,” Leary’s statement continued.