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Bishop Charles H. Ellis III who officiated Aretha Franklin’s funeral is now apologizing after comparing Ariana grande to something off a Taco bell menu and after a video went viral of what it looked like him inappropriately groping her. Below is the apology,
Via Too Fab the Bishop says,
“It would never be my intention to touch any woman’s breast,” he told the Associated Press after the complaints surfaced. “I don’t know I guess I put my arm around her. Maybe I crossed the border, maybe I was too friendly or familiar but again, I apologize.”
“I hug all the female artists and the male artists,” he continued, saying he hugged everyone throughout the service. “Everybody that was up, I shook their hands and hugged them. That’s what we are all about in the church. We are all about love. The last thing I want to do is to be a distraction to this day. This is all about Aretha Franklin.”
He also said he was sorry for offending anyone with his joke comparing her name to something you’d find on the menu at Taco Bell. “I personally and sincerely apologize to Ariana and to her fans and to the whole Hispanic community,” he told the AP. “When you’re doing a program for nine hours you try to keep it lively, you try to insert some jokes here and there.”
