Kylie Kelce speaks out on Harrison Butker's commencement speech as she addresses controversial 'homemaker' remark

Kylie Kelce has weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding Harrison Butker after the Kansas City Chiefs kicker suggested women should prioritize being 'homemakers' in life.

Butker, who helped the Chiefs win a second straight Super Bowl back in February, sparked outrage last month with his opinion-dividing commencement speech at Benedictine College.

As well as taking aim at the LGBTQ+ community and pro-abortion advocates, the 28-year-old was accused of sexism after telling the women graduates in attendance that raising children should give them more excitement in life than any potential career.

Those comments ignited fierce debate last month; with several high-profile figures condemning Butker and others claiming his remarks were blown out of proportion.

Now the dust has settled, Kelce - the wife of Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason - has given her taken on it. 

'I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion,' Kylie said about Butker during an interview with Cheddar. 

'I hope that if anyone does not align with those views in that graduating class they know that they have just achieved something that no one can take away from them. Their education will stick with them for the rest of their lives.

'I hope they were appropriately celebrated if that was not their view, and if it was and they're looking forward to making a family and being a stay at home mom, then more power to them.'

She added: 'I think that as women we should support each other in our choices and making sure that we feel as though we can do whatever we would like to do. So hopefully those graduating women know that at the very least I'm very proud of them, and I hope that they go on to do whatever it is that makes their heart happy.'

Amid the controversy last month, Jason revealed his wife's thoughts about the Butker speech during an episode of his and brother Travis' New Heights podcast.

Despite admitting that they did not align themselves with some of his views, both men leapt to the defense of Travis' Chiefs teammates and urged people to move on from the topic.

'Make no mistake about it, a lot of the things he said in his commencement speech are not things that I align myself with,' Jason said. 

'But, he's giving a commencement speech at a Catholic university, and shocker... it ended up being a very religious and Catholic speech.

'I can listen to somebody talk and take great value in it, like when he's talking about the importance of family and the importance a great mother can make. But [I can] also acknowledge that not everybody has to be a homemaker if that's not what they want to do in life.

'When you're listening to somebody, you take in things that you like, [then] you listen to other things and you say, "Well I don't f***ing like that."

'I've had so many people ask me, what would you do if your daughters had to sit there and listen to somebody tell them - after they've just earned a degree - that they should just go to align to be homemakers? And I would say if my daughters let anybody tell them what to do, or that they should be homemakers, then I've failed as a dad.

'Like what the f**k are you talking about? I don't care who's talking to them, if you let somebody up on a stage tell you that you can't do that, and then you're like "oh f**k, I guess I won't go be a CEO"... then you're not gonna make it!

'If you don't like what somebody says, all you gotta do is just say: "That guy's a f***ing idiot" - and then you move on. I don't get what the whole fuss is about quite honest.'

Kelce then backtracked by stressing that he does understand the controversy surrounding Butker's remarks, before making a joke about his wife Kylie when discussing her thoughts on the commencement speech.