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Given their wide popularity and mass following, celebrity virality comes with its own share of drawbacks, especially in the case of tweets and comments which become sensational given their harmful or offensive streaks.
We have often witnessed celebrities being publicly called out and virtually bashed for their âinsensitiveâ comments, which forces them to see the wrong in their action and own up to it. Here are 5 celebrities who publicly apologised for their insensitive tweets in recent times.
1. Karan Johar © Instagram
Karan Johar is known to be pretty active on social media and has kept up the tradition even under lockdown by constantly sharing fun videos featuring his children Roohi and Yash. However, after the director recently came across an online video titled âThank You Celebritiesâ which showed how international celebs are âenjoyingâ during the lockdown and forgetting about real peopleâs struggles, he took to his Twitter account and âprofuselyâ apologized for lacking âemotional foresightâ and posting insensitive posts on his feed.
This hit me hard and I have realised many of my posts may have been insensitive to many...I apologise profusely and wish to add none of it was intentional and came from a place of sharing but clearly may have lacked emotional foresight ....am sorry!ï¸ https://t.co/MO3kHkDQdo
â Karan Johar (@karanjohar) April 25, 2020
However, many of his followers have commented saying there is no need for an apology because his intent wasnât particularly wrong.
2. Anand Mahindra © BCCL
While almost all of Mahindraâs tweets are well-received by his followers, one of his recent tweets containing a picture of a poor mother and her toddler wearing âleafâ masks didnât sit well with his follower and comedian Aditi Mittal, wherein he had said âItâs not just about #MaskIndia but also a greener world. A reminder that nature already provides us with all that we need..â
Aditi replied on the tweet with this,
Anand, this is NOTHING to be celebrated. There is NO EVIDENCE that wearing a leaf provides ANY kind of protection.
They are not doing this environmental awareness, they are doing this because govs who were supposed to provide them this life saving mask have forsaken them.
â awryaditi (@awryaditi) April 25, 2020
And being the graceful gentleman that Mr Mahindra is, he accepted his oversight and sent out a public apology.
Youâre right, I can see how my tweet appeared insensitive to the inequity of the situation. Iâve deleted it. https://t.co/YL2Ucqrc9e
â anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 25, 2020
3. Divyanka Tripathi © Twitter - sakshi3010
TV actress Divyanka Tripathi was called out recently for her insensitive tweet during the early stages of coronavirus outbreak in Maharashtra. With many people practising social distancing, Mumbai roads had become free of traffic jams, which made Divyanka say, âWith such less traffic in Mumbai, it seems like an opportunity to quickly complete metro, bridges and smooth roads."
This didnât sit well with her followers and one of them called out the actor and said:
As if the engineers & construction worker life r not important .. such an vague & unrequired tweet at this moment
â siya mishra.. (@siya_siyamishra) March 17, 2020
Many other users also said that Divyankaâs tweet was inappropriate, following which the Yeh Hai Mohabbatein actor accepted her error and apologized.
My apologies. Point taken. https://t.co/WXQUkRFee1
â Divyanka T Dahiya (@Divyanka_T) March 17, 2020
She also went on to add,
We all are humans and susceptible to errors.
In this volatile & violent social media world, important question is: If someone's capable of realizing and apologizing..ARE YOU CAPABLE OF FORGIVING AND MOVING ON?
Should everything be News & point of argument? Where's humanity there?
â Divyanka T Dahiya (@Divyanka_T) March 17, 2020
4. Akshay Kumar © Viral Bhayani
End of last year saw a huge uproar on social media when tweets showing actor Akshay Kumar âlikedâ a video that mocked the attack on Jamia students amid the mass protests that broke out in the university area in December over the CAA-NRC issue.
For people requesting Bollywood stars for raising their voice against police brutality on Jamia students. Here is our Hero @akshaykumar who "likes" a tweet mocking brutal attack on Jamia Milia students. He has now unliked it. #JamiaProtest pic.twitter.com/tgYwOiHDQ6
â Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) December 16, 2019
Though Akshay swiftly unliked the post as soon as the news broke, he went ahead and made a public announcement stating, âRegarding the âlikeâ on the tweet of Jamia Milia students, it was by mistake. I was scrolling and accidentally it must have been pressed and when I realised I immediately unliked it as in no way do I support such acts.â
5. Vivek Oberoi © Twitter - TheReel_in
Early last year, actor Vivek Oberoi landed himself in a soup when he shared a rather distasteful meme on his Twitter handle, which linked the exit polls to Aishwarya Rai Bachchanâs romantic life which also involved him at one point.
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Following backlash and a notice to himself by the National Commision for Women, Vivek ended up deleting the tweet and extended an apology saying, âEven if one woman is offended by my reply to the meme, it calls for remedial action. Apologies...tweet deleted.â
Sometimes what appears to be funny and harmless at first glance to one, may not be so to others. I have spent the last 10 years empowering more than 2000 underprivileged girls, I cant even think of being disrespectful to any woman ever.
â Vivek Anand Oberoi (@vivekoberoi) May 21, 2019
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