He’s consuming his phrases.
Neil Patrick Harris apologized after a photo resurfaced from his 2011 Halloween party displaying a meat platter designed to appear like Amy Winehouse’s corpse.
“A photograph not too long ago resurfaced from a Halloween-themed celebration my husband [David Burtka] and I hosted 11 years in the past,” Harris stated in an announcement to Entertainment Weekly Monday. “It was regrettable then, and it stays regrettable now.”
He added, “Amy Winehouse was a once-in-a-generation expertise, and I’m sorry for any damage this picture brought about.”
In a since-deleted tweet, celebration attendee Justin Mikita posted a photograph of the graphic edible show, which depicted a bloodied model of the late singer mendacity on an post-mortem desk with a cigarette in her mouth alongside a small card titling the piece “The Corpse of Amy Winehouse.”
“Look who confirmed up at @ActuallyNPH & @GourmetMD’s Halloween celebration final evening. Trying good,” Mikita, who married Jesse Tyler Ferguson in 2013, tweeted on the time.
Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on the age of 27 on July 23, 2011, simply months earlier than Harris’ celebration.
Almost 11 years later, screenshots of the insensitive photograph made the rounds on the web as soon as once more, leaving a number of individuals with a foul style of their mouths for the “How I Met Your Mom” alum, 48, and a few calling the joke “f–king disgusting.”
“I don’t care if it was 10 years in the past, Neil Patrick Harris getting an ‘Amy Winehouse’s Corpse’ meat platter 3 months after her tragic demise is so disturbing. That’s somebody’s daughter, pal, beloved one, and is undeniably her,” one person tweeted.
“the best way amy winehouse was handled earlier than and after her demise is so insanely disgusting :/ she deserved so a lot better. additionally f–ok you neil patrick harris,” a second person wrote.
“Amy Winehouse dies tragically younger and also you serve a reproduction of her corpse as a meat platter shortly after her demise? That’s subsequent stage deplorable,” a third agreed.
Others defended Patrick, arguing it was only a joke and that folks ought to transfer on.
“So Neil Patrick Harris apologized for an 11 12 months outdated Amy Winehouse joke. Discuss grave digging to deliver up one thing so outdated. Would possibly as properly deliver the corpse again up with you because you’re already down there,” one fan tweeted.
“Persons are mad bc Neil Patrick Harris had a platter of meals within the form of Amy Winehouse? But, the second a star dies, y’all flood the web with memes. The maths isn’t mathing. Make it make sense. Cease reaching. 😂,” another agreed.
This isn’t Harris’ first controversy that led to an apology. The actor stated sorry to Rachel Bloom in 2018 after tweeting about not figuring out who she was on the Tony Awards.
