The pathetic attempt at an apology from Moir is almost as offensive as the original article. The full statement reads...
"Some people, particularly in the gay community, have been upset by my article about the sad death of Boyzone member Stephen Gately. This was never my intention. Stephen, as I pointed out in the article was a charming and sweet man who entertained millions. However, the point of my column -which, complaining have fully read - was to suggest that, in my honest opinion, his death raises many unanswered questions. That was all.
"Yes, anyone can die at anytime of anything. However, it seems unlikely to me that what took place in the hours immediately preceding Gately’s death - out all evening at a nightclub, taking illegal substances, bringing a stranger back to the flat, getting intimate with that stranger - did not have a bearing on his death. At the very least, it could have exacerbated an underlying medical condition.
"The entire matter of his sudden death seemed to have been handled with undue haste when lessons could have been learned.
This just makes it worse, what was previously just insinuated in the original article has now become painfully explicit, Jan Moir thinks that being "intimate with that stranger" i.e. in a homosexual way has in some way caused his death.
This vile homophobic rubbish is supposed to be an apology? She didn't take back any of her offensive comments and didn't even express regret that she offended people. That, combined with her suggestion that gay sex killed Stephen Gately is only going to make things worse.
She's a cunt and should never work again.
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