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Justin Glaze, a current “Bachelorette” contestant, is officially apologizing for offensive tweets that recently were seen by fans, according to People.
The 27-year-old's tweets, which were posted between 2009 and 2011, resurfaced on Reddit. In the posts, the teenager at the time used homophobic language and insulted Black women. He also promoted colorism.
He addressed the controversy during an appearance on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast with Becca Kufrin and guest co-host Tayshia Adams.
“As I reflect on everything I just went through with this whole journey, oftentimes people ask me what I took from it,” Glaze told People. “And one of the biggest takeaways for me was just my personal growth, and one of those things is being able to hold myself accountable, which is something that historically I wasn’t able to do. So, I have no issue with owning up and apologizing from the bottom of my heart for the really hurtful words that I used.”
He continues, “The last thing that I want to do is run from it. That’s not who I am. I just want to speak from the heart, and hopefully, people will get an understanding of where I was then versus where I am now. When I look back at 14-year-old Justin, I was in high school and quite frankly I was the type of person who for whatever reason felt the need to fit in and say funny things and keep up with what my peers were doing and saying. The folks I had associated with would throw around really hurtful slurs that, at the time, I didn’t really think anything of.”
Glaze explained how he doesn’t want anyone to defend him. Even though his tweets were posted more than a decade ago, he said, “what I said was ignorant and hurtful then [and] it’s ignorant and hurtful now.”
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