Patti LuPone Apologizes For ‘Demeaning’ Remarks About Audra McDonald, Kecia Lewis
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LuPone's statement follows a push from members of the Broadway community to get her disinvited from this year's Tony Awards.
Patti LuPone issued an apology to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald over the weekend after her earlier comments on both women drew heated backlash from the theater community.
The three-time Tony Award winner shared a statement on her social media platforms Saturday in which she said she was “deeply sorry” for the “demeaning and disrespectful” words she’d used, particularly toward Lewis, in a controversial interview with The New Yorker published last week.
“I regret my flippant and emotional responses during this interview, which were inappropriate, and I am devastated that my behavior has offended others and has run counter to what we hold dear in this community,” she wrote. “I hope to have the chance to speak to Audra and Kecia personally to offer my sincere apologies.”
LuPone’s apology came a day after the release of an open letter addressed to the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League calling for the “Agatha All Along” actor to be disinvited from this year’s Tony Awards, set to take place June 8, over what the authors described as “a blatant act of racialized disrespect” toward Lewis and McDonald, who are Black.
The letter had been signed by more than 600 members of the Broadway community, including Tony-winning actors James Monroe Iglehart and Maleah Joi Moon.
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