Stephen Fry Apologises ‘Unreservedly’ For Comments About Sex Abuse Victims

Stephen Fry has apologised ‘unreservedly’ for comments he made about sex abuse victims, in which he said their ‘self pity gets none of his sympathy’.

Many fans called his comments ‘dangerous’, as he said on US TV show ‘The Rubin Report’: “There are many great plays which contain rapes, and the word rape now is even considered a rape.

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“If you say: ‘you can’t watch this play, you can’t watch Titus Andronicus, or you can’t read it in a Shakespeare class, or you can’t read Macbeth because it’s got children being killed in it, it might trigger something when you were young that upset you once, because uncle touched you in a nasty place’, well I’m sorry.

“It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place, you get some of my sympathy, but your self-pity gets none of my sympathy because self-pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity.

“Get rid of it, because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself. Just grow up.”

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According to The Mirror, Stephen apologised in an email to the New Day. A victim of child sex abuse had shared her experience in an open letter to the paper following his comments.

He said: “It distresses me greatly to think that I have upset anyone in the course of the TV interview I had with David Rubin the other week.

“I of course apologise unreservedly for hurting feelings the way I did. That was never my purpose. There are few experiences more terrible, traumatic and horrifying than rape and abuse and if I gave the impression that I belittled those crimes and the effects they have on their victims then I am so so sorry.

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“It seems I must have utterly failed to get across what I was actually trying to say and instead offended and upset people who didn’t deserve to be offended or upset.”