Angela Simmons is doing her greatest to get out of scorching water following her controversial accent on the 2024 BET Awards.
After the previous actuality star hit the BET Awards crimson carpet on Sunday evening, followers flooded social media with commentary about her style alternative. To go together with her sparkly inexperienced costume, Simmons was carrying an identical, bedazzled purse within the form of a handgun. Not solely that, she did a number of poses throughout her photograph op to match its form, holding it up and pointing the bag towards cameras as if it had been an precise weapon.
She responded to the backlash pretty rapidly, posting a video to her Instagram Story to deal with her style alternative. On the time, Angela acknowledged that she has a private historical past with with gun violence–her ex-fiancé and the daddy of her 6-year-old little one, Sutton Tennyson, was fatally shot in 2018–happening to insist that she’s not a “violent” particular person and easily thought that her purse seemed “cool.”
Now, she’s apologizing for the accent as soon as once more, writing a prolonged assertion on Instagram admitting that she regrets her choice to hold that bag on the BET Awards.
“After I selected the purse, I believed it was cute and distinctive, and I made a poor choice in utilizing it as an adjunct to amplify my magnificence,” she started in her publish. “I deeply remorse that this merchandise, which symbolizes a gun, was inappropriate and insensitive, particularly given my private and neighborhood experiences with gun violence.”
Simmons continued, “I’ve personally misplaced my associate, the daddy of my little one, to gun violence, and I’ve witnessed its devastating impression on my neighborhood in Southeast Queens…I ask in your understanding and forgiveness, and I hope you possibly can settle for my honest apology. Whereas this incident was a misstep, I cannot permit it to outline my ethical compass or my dedication to selling peace and ending gun violence.”
Not lengthy after Simmons’ second apology, her boyfriend, Yo Gotti, reacted to all the chatter surrounding his lady.
The rapper undoubtedly didn’t take the scenario as severely as Angela, posting a black display to his Instagram Story and writing, “She simply working towards…LOL,” together with hearts, a laughing face, and a pistol emoji.