Update 10/9: Janey Godley withdraws from pantomime 'by mutal agreement'. More here.
Update 9/9: Janey Godley has been dropped from Government Covid adverts. More here.
Comedian Janey Godley has apologised following the controversy over old tweets that were recently unearthed.
Godley wrote on Twitter: "There are tweets from my past social media that are horridly offensive, I believe in progress not perfection and I am far from perfect. People have every right to go through my social media and see what values I hold and to find hurtful phrases and statements is shocking, I am deeply sorry to everyone I offended.
“Comedy is no excuse to use disgusting and hurtful words that affect people and I know many of you expected better of me. I apologise for every single word that upset people, I should have blocked and reported the accounts that threatened me and not replied with abhorrent heckles."
“There are fake tweets created to damage my reputation but the ones I wrote I take responsibility for. During this pandemic, I tried to keep everyone's spirits up and I will continue to do my best to keep that going.”
She later added on Facebook: "I absolutely deserve every bit of criticism for the language used in past tweets, there is no shying away from that. I am writing this as I haven’t slept well, it’s my own fault, people have the right to go through past TL and scrutinise each tweet, I deserve this- I’m not being a victim I am saying if you put yourself up there and say horrific offensive stuff that hurts people, you deserve to be brick batted down - that’s life I accept that, people have the right to punish me, I can’t argue with that is what I am saying.
