Comedienne Samantha Bee is steadily back on her feet after calling the First Daughter Ivanka Trump a “c**t” on her TBS show. No Roseanne treatment for her. After a rather insincere apology, she now tells The Hollywood Reporter that she “handled it well.”
“The level of ferocity is something I hadn’t quite experienced up to that point, but I assume I’ll go through it again,” Bee said. “Maybe I’ll be better prepared next time. I think we handled it well, but it was a pretty steep learning curve.”
“It affected me a lot,” Bee continued. “I’ve been thinking a lot about it. We had a scheduled vacation around July 4, and it was a time of reflection.”
During the segment in which she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t,” Bee also made a grotesque reference of incest between the first daughter and her father, President Trump. The unhinged rant was a response to Ivanka posting a heartwarming photo of both her and her son:
After mounting protest and heavy criticism from the likes of CNN’s Brooke Baldwin, Bee began facing an advertising boycott, which prompted her to give a mealy-mouthed apology.
“I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it,” Bee later wrote.
Despite the controversy, Bee’s show just racked up seven Emmy nominations.