On June 27, 1995, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested film actor Hugh Grant for engaging in lewd conduct in public with a Hollywood prostitute named Divine Brown. Shortly after his release from custody, Grant, who was in California to promote his most recent movie, Nine Months, issued a public statement apologizing for his actions. Grant would later express further mortification during his highly-rated primetime interview on The Tonight Show with host Jay Leno.
Key Apologia Strategies:
Mortification
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Formal public statement:
Last night I did something completely insane. I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry than I can ever possibly say.
Mea culpa on The Tonight Show:
The thing is people give me tons of ideas on this one. I keep reading new, you know, psychological theories and stuff like that that I was under pressure, or I was overtired, or I was lonely, or I fell down the stairs when I was a child, or whatever. But I I think that would be bollocks to hide behind something like that. I think you know in life pretty much what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. There you have it.
Sources
Hugh Grant appears on Tonight Show after Hollywood arrest. (n.d.). History.com. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hugh-grant-appears-on-tonight-show-after-hollywood-arrest
Rodrigues, J. (2015, June 26). Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/film/from-the-archive-blog/2015/jun/26/hugh-grant-arrest-prostitute-divine-brown-20-1995
