Author Bret Easton Ellis has apologized for a handful of inflammatory tweets against “Zero Dark Thirty” director Kathryn Bigelow.
In a piece titled “Dear Kathryn Bigelow: Bret Easton Ellis Is Really Sorry,” he explained that his posts were sexist and came about after boozing and tweeting.
“I’ve taken a lot of hits in my career-they bounce off,” Ellis wrote in an epically long explanation to The Daily Beast. “The armor was built so long ago that I now assume everyone else in the public eye can handle it when they’re shot at. But the outcry over the Bigelow tweets was eye-opening to me in a way that nothing else has ever been. I got it. I heard it.”
At the end of the four page article, he realizes the criticisms may be right.
“I looked back at what I was doing with those tweets (quickly, unconsciously, hurriedly, drunkenly) and I have to admit they simply back-fired. Which is why I’m writing this. No one asked me to write this. I simply write something like this when I’m in pain. And I’ve been slowly feeling a painfulness when reading all of the articles reacting to those tweets.”
The “American Psycho” author provoked outrage when he tweeted that the Bigelow was overrated because she’s a “very hot woman.”
He tweeted on Dec. 6: “Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she’s a very hot woman she’s really overrated.”