Paris Hilton apologizes over gay remark

Reported by GLAAD

Paris Hilton released an apology following media reports about comments she made about gay men. Hilton’s comments were made during a conversation with a gay friend when part of the comments were recorded by a New York cab driver, then released through Radar Online earlier today.

She released the following apology to GLAAD:

As anyone close to me knows, I always have been and always will be a huge supporter of the gay community. I am so sorry and so upset that I caused pain to my gay friends, fans and their families with the comments heard this morning. I was having this private conversation with a friend of mine who is gay and our conversation was in no way towards the entire gay community. It is the last thing that I would ever want to do and I cannot put into words how much I wish I could take back every word.

HIV/AIDS can hurt anyone, gay and straight, men and women. It’s something I take very seriously and should not have been thrown around in conversation.

Gay people are the strongest and most inspiring people I know. It is so wrong when people bully or put down others for being gay. No one should have to go through that. Again, I am so sorry from the bottom of my heart and I feel absolutely horrible. I hope that everyone can accept my apology and know that it is not who I am or how I feel in any way.

Thank you for taking a minute to read this, I love you.

From: s
Time: September 21, 2012, 5:46 pm

hrmm.. I know she wouldn’t mean to hurt anyone. And I get that it was just a private conversation with a friend that should never have been recorded.. and she was wtf-ing being told about grindr.. but this has still left me feeling a bit uneasy. It just feels like a very bleak outlook as a Paris fan right now. We haven’t got anything to look forward to. As much as she keeps saying the album is coming out.. I’ve lost all optimism about it coming out. I don’t care about her products. I love that it’s a success but I have no interest in them. I don’t know. It sucks, because the year started out feeling like it was going to be a huge, great one.. but not quite.

From: retrograde
Time: September 22, 2012, 4:46 am

I know exactly how you feel. At this point all we have to look forward to is that 3D KPop music video. I think part of this general feeling of ~blahness~ is that she hasn’t done any TV interviews in over a year. No Ellen, no Craig, no Jimmy, nothing, and to me that’s why I feel like she’s fading out of the spotlight. Hopefully next year will be a better one. I’m just going to pray her music leaks by Christmas and that they’ll be a sequel to the Devil’s Carnival that she can star in.