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Angela Simmons apologizes for bringing gun-shaped clutch to the BET Awards after weapon-inspired accessory sparked backlash: 'I thought it was a fashion moment'


Simmons, who is the daughter of Run-DMC's Rev Run, was slammed after she attended the awards show with the arms-inspired accessory.

Simmons, who is the daughter of Run-DMC's Rev Run, was slammed after she attended the awards show with the arms-inspired accessory - but she later explained she didn't intend on 'ruffling anyone's feathers' and merely saw the clutch as a 'fashion moment.' Simmons, 36, apologized to anyone who was offended by her fashion accessory and also reminded fans of her own tragic history with gun violence - in 2018, her ex-fiance Sutton Tennyson was shot and killed. Simmons, who has six-year-old son Sutton Jr. with her late ex, told fans in an Instagram video: 'So I see a lot of conversation around the purse I wore to the awards and normally I don't address rumors and stuff but I'm not like that.

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