Emily Blunt has apologized for comments she made on a chat show 11 years ago about a restaurant worker’s weight.
In a resurfaced clip from The Jonathan Ross Show – first broadcast in September 2012, the 40-year-old actress referred to a waitress who served her at a Chili’s restaurant in Louisiana as “enormous”.
“I just need to address this head-on as my jaw was on the floor watching this clip from 12 years ago,” Emily said in a statement obtained by NBC News Oct. 20. “I’m appalled that I would say something so insensitive, hurtful, and unrelated to whatever story I was trying to tell on a talk show.”
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She added, “I’ve always considered myself someone who wouldn’t dream of upsetting anyone so whatever possessed me to say anything like this in that moment is unrecognizable to me or anything I stand for.”
But Emily isn’t shying away from taking accountability. “Yet it happened, and I said it and I’m so sorry for any hurt caused,” she continued. “I was absolutely old enough to know better.”
Back in 2012, Emily recalled going to a Chili’s restaurant while filming her movie Looper and went on to make an insensitive comment about her server.
Blunt is best known for her performances in The Devil Wears Prada, A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns and most recently starred in Oppenheimer as J Robert Oppenheimer’s wife Katherine.
