Children’s entertainer Rachel “Ms. Rachel” Griffin-accurso apologized again Friday after facing mounting social media backlash for liking an antisemitic Instagram comment, admitting, “I need to move slower.I made mistakes and misunderstood because I’m human.”
“I am blessed to have God and my family and friends and people who have understood that obviously this was an accident,” she added. “I have my own peace of mind in knowing it was an accident.”
The YouTube creator came under fire Thursday for liking a comment on one of her posts that read, “Free America from the Jews.” She said that she misunderstood what “liked by author” meant and intended to delete the comment.Backlash was swift Thursday — and a tearful video apology from Griffin-Accurso soon followed.
Later Thursday, New York comedian Jeff Lawrence, a man claiming to be her distant cousin through marriage, posted a video responding to the controversy, slamming her as a “jew-hating antisemite.” Lawrence admitted he has never met Griffin-accurso, which he said was evidence that she is antisemitic.
Representatives for Lawrence,Griffin-Accurso and her husband Aron Accurso did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
In her follow-up apology Friday morning, Griffin-Accurso said she’s “changing how I engage with comments and social media” and further broke down the backstory of how she “misunderstood” a comment, thinking “it said that the author of the antisemitic comment ‘liked’ the comment,” not her.
Read her full apology at the Instagram link below:
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