“Oh my God. I’d rather put my feet up,” the entertainer wrote on Twitter. “In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene from Game of Thrones and it went down well with a lot of people.”
Clarkson said he was “terrified to have caused so much pain” and promised to “be more careful in the future”, but did not apologise.
Clarkson wrote in her column over the weekend that she hates Meghan “on a cellular level” following Netflix’s Harry and Meghan docu-series.
“At night I can’t sleep as I lie gnashing my teeth and dream of the day she is made to parade naked through the streets of Britain while crowds chant ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her,” the dissenting broadcaster wrote .
Many – including Clarkson’s own daughter and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who Clarkson also wrote about – condemned his comments on social media.
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