Terry Crews says sorry to Gabrielle Union for his remarks

LOS ANGELES — Terry Crews apologized for his comments about Gabrielle Union’s claims of mistreatment on “The US’s Bought Abilities,” saying he didn’t mean to “invalidate” her experience and regrets letting down other shaded girls folk.

On the “This day” level to last week, Crews acknowledged that Union’s allegations of racism on the production didn’t replicate his experience because the NBC skill level to’s host. Union became once dropped as a receive on the series after one season.

In a series of posts Friday on hisTwitteraccount, Crews recounted telling Kevin Hart that he had to “acknowledge the ache of different folk.”

“Beautiful now I even possess to manufacture the identical thing. I are attempting to claim sorry for the comments I made. I label there are different Dark girls folk damage and let down by what I acknowledged and additionally by what I didn’t grunt,” Crews wrote.

In a tweet addressed straight to Union, he acknowledged it became once “never my design to invalidate your experience — however that’s what I did. I grunt sorry.”

He failed to give strengthen to Union out of his desire to be “professionally just as your co-worker,” Crews wrote.

When he became once requested on NBC’s “This day” about Union and the level to, he acknowledged that as a man he couldn’t take care of the claims of sexism, collectively with, “however I will be able to focus on on behalf of any racism comments. That became once never my experience.”

The exchange publication Form reported last fall that Union, who’s African American, believed she became once fired because she had requested NBC and the level to’s producers to reply to an environment that tolerated racist jokes and remarks. That incorporated what Union acknowledged had been extra than one notes from producers saying she became once carrying her hair “too shaded” for the “The US’s Bought Abilities” viewers.

In December, NBC started an investigation of her claims.

“I’m very confident if we learn one thing … we can assign unique practices in explain if foremost,” Paul Telegdy, the community’s leisure chief, informed a TV critics meeting in early January.