Abbie Chatfield has issued an apology on social media for a video she posted a year ago containing what she described as “dark humour” regarding political violence.
The recirculating video, which Abbie said on Tuesday morning was being “misunderstood”, “exaggerated” and “taken out of context”, saw the outspoken podcast host joke about accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione. She reacted to news that Luigi was receiving “love letters” and romantic attention while in prison, and suggested that “incels” should “start a revolution” if they want to get “pussy” like the alleged shooter.
“I thought, this is a funny joke to make about incels and the redirection of anger and violence of incels and saying, ‘Look, this guy did this, look how much pussy he’s getting’, right? Making a stupid joke that was intended to point out the violence coming from incels,” she said in her recent video.
“And in the video I said, ‘You’re doing it every day anyway’, because incels are notoriously violent towards women, apparently in an effort to have revenge on women for lack of attention, right? So I saw that Luigi Mangione was getting this attention and I was making a joke — not a tasteful joke, a very distasteful joke — I was making a joke saying like, ‘start a revolution’, essentially.”
Why did Abbie apologise?
Abbie apologised because the video not only trivialised the violence associated with both Mangione and incel culture, but had also been misinterpreted by viewers as a call for the assassination of Donald Trump.
“I did not say what people are saying that I said,” she asserted. “People have said that I’ve called for the assassination of Trump. I do not want that to happen. I want to be clear. I do not believe that political assassinations are positive for anybody.”
She added that, although she disagrees with Trump’s policies and views, she never said his name in the video.
“I never said it was about him, I never called for the assassination of him. This was a punchline that was meant to be about incels and the bizarre reaction to Luigi Mangione,” she said.
“It was a joke about the desperation of incels. This has now been misinterpreted, and I understand why, I totally get why, but I really want to apologise for it because it’s not appropriate to make jokes like this.”
The former reality star ultimately said that she “really regrets” posting the video, and said that she’s “genuinely learned so much in the past year” about thinking before she speaks and being more educational and less reactionary.
“I’ve really made an effort in the past year— and even before that — to not call people out directly, to not make deregulated videos,” she said.
“I’ve made a real effort to not be like, coming for people, even in the disagreement space. If I have disagreed, I’ve tried to just speak about the topic at hand, not go off. I’ve made an effort to be intentional with my words.”
Is Abbie’s apology related to Keli Holiday being detained in the US?
Abbie’s video on Tuesday morning was posted just a few days after her partner, musician Keli Holiday (aka Adam Hyde), was detained at the US-Canadian border after an issue with his visa.
The “Dancing2” hitmaker was due to perform the final show of his US tour in New York City this week, but was denied re-entry over the weekend.
“I’m still trying to get clarity on the situation myself,” the musician wrote on his Instagram Stories. “I have spent all day detained at the Canadian border and denied entry back into the US despite having the proper visa documentation in place.”
Social media users were quick to draw a link between the two incidents, given the Trump administration’s border policies about travellers’ negative social media content, and questioned if Abbie’s apology was posted in response to Adam’s US debacle. However, she posted a follow-up video saying they were unrelated.
“This apology is coming off the back of the fact that I’m getting thousands of comments about this, and I’m going, ‘Oh, f**k, I probably should say something because I don’t want people to think that about me’. So that’s what it’s coming off the back of,” she said.
“And that’s coming off the back of news articles saying this about Adam. Now, I want to be clear, we have no official reason for that happening, so the reason why I’m saying it is because of that. But it’s also because I really, really, really do want to change the way that I communicate online.”
Abbie’s videos have already racked up hundreds of thousands of views since being posted on Tuesday morning, with many followers applauding her for her honesty and growth.
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