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Patti LuPone Apologizes For Comments About Kecia Lewis And Audra McDonald
Patti LuPone writes on Instagram, "For as long as i have worked in the. theatre, I have spoken my mind and never apologized. That is changing today."
Patti LuPone has publicly apologized to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald for comments she made in a recent New Yorker article, writing in an Instagram post, “For as long as I have worked in the. “Recently, Patti LuPone made deeply inappropriate and unacceptable public comments about two of Broadway’s most respected and beloved artists: Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald,” the letter states. “In a published interview with The New Yorker, she referred to Kecia Lewis — a Black woman and a 40-year veteran of the American stage — as a “b***.” This language is not only degrading and misogynistic — it is a blatant act of racialized disrespect.
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