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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who spent a week in the ICU after contracting COVID-19 — is now starring in a new national TV ad promoting mask-wearing.

Christie, a Republican ally of and occasional adviser to President Trump, was hospitalized for a week in October after sitting in the White House Rose Garden without a mask for a celebration of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

“This message isn’t for everyone. It’s for all those people who refuse to wear a mask,” Christie says in the ad, which he posted to his Twitter account.

“You know, lying in isolation in ICU for seven days, I thought about how wrong I was to remove my mask at the White House,” Christie says.

“Today, I think about how wrong it is to let mask-wearing divide us, especially as we now know you’re twice as likely to get COVID-19 if you don’t wear a mask. Because if you don’t do the right thing, we could all end up on the wrong side of history. Please wear a mask.”

Many attendees at the Barrett event in the Rose Garden contracted COVID-19, including Trump. Christie also helped Trump prepare for the first presidential debate during indoor meetings around the time of Barrett’s nomination event.

The ad is being funded by World Health Organization ambassador for global strategy Ray Chambers, a wealthy philanthropist. Trump withdrew the US from the WHO, citing its failure to vet early data on the virus from China. The WHO did not encourage mask-wearing early in the pandemic.

Christie, 58, previously expressed his regret for wandering the White House grounds without a mask.

In October, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “I mistook the bubble of security around the president for a viral safe zone. I was wrong.”

At the time of the outbreak linked to Barrett’s nomination, the White House had recently switched to a less-sensitive rapid-result coronavirus antigen test, after previously using a more accurate machine.

Since March, the virus has infected nearly 17 million Americans and killed more than 307,000. This week, officials began administering the first approved vaccine.

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