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.
