Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel issued an apology Tuesday for his „embarrassing“ portrayals of Black celebrities.
The Emmys host had come under fire recently after social media unearthed clips of him performing in blackface.
Kimmel explained in his statement that „On KROQ radio in the mid-90s, I did a recurring impression of the NBA player Karl Malone.“
„In the late 90s, I continued impersonating Malone on TV. We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Karl Malone as possible,“ Kimmel further explained. „I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.
