So I'm taking this opportunity, now that I have pulled myself together and am able to speak, to offer an apology to those that I have hurt. I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is wanting to say we are. The color of your skin, your religion, your sexual preference does not matter, but it's what's in the heart ... and my family and I try to live by that," she continues, "I hope that you forgive me because this comes from the deepest part of my heart."
Deen recently admitted in a court deposition that she once used N-word but insisted it was a word she and her family no longer use. She later blamed her Southern upbringing for the use of racial slur. Her PR team said in her defense, "She was born 60 years ago when America's South had schools that were segregated, different bathrooms, different restaurants and Americans rode in different parts of the bus. This is not today."
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