Jason Alexander apologizes after Courtney Stodden says 2012 comedy sketch objectified her as a minor

Jason Alexander is taking accountability for his past mistakes.

The 66-year-old character precocious apologized to Courtney Stodden for participating successful a 2012 Funny aliases Die sketch successful which he held a cellphone up to her thorax and made comments astir her assemblage erstwhile she was a minor.

"Looking backmost astatine nan drama sketch successful which Ms. Stodden and I participated successful 2012, I wholly work together that it was inappropriate and I genuinely regret it," he told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "But much importantly, I americium profoundly sorry for immoderate harm aliases distress it has caused Ms. Stodden. I connection her my sincerest apologies."

His apology comes 1 time aft Stodden called retired Alexander connected Instagram arsenic 1 of nan writers of nan sketch, adding, "As an adult, that truth has go harder—not easier—for maine to understand."

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Alexander apologized to Stodden for a 2012 sketch successful which he objectified her body. (Getty Images)

In nan Instagram post, she shared a photograph of her and Alexander successful nan sketch, successful which she is wearing a bikini, and nan character is rubbing a cellphone crossed her chest.

"I was 17 years aged successful this photo. The older I get, nan much intolerable this is to understand," she wrote. "During this drama sketch, Jason Alexander many times rubbed his telephone crossed my breasts while saying location was 'no signal' successful my caput but 'plenty of signal' successful my chest. Later successful nan sketch, he joked that erstwhile I turned 18 he’d for illustration to return maine down nan sofa and 'have his way' pinch me."

She added that arsenic a insignificant she "didn’t person nan ineligible powerfulness to determine whether I wanted to participate" and that "the contracts were signed by adults."

At nan time, she was joined to Doug Hutchison, who she tied nan knot pinch erstwhile she was 16 and he was 51, noting nan paycheck for this quality went to him.

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Stodden described emotion unsocial while connected nan group of Funny aliases Die. (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

"I was nan only kid successful nan room. I felt truthful alone," she added. "Looking backmost now, I don’t spot comedy. I spot a 17-year-old woman whose assemblage became portion of an big joke. People still say, 'You chose to beryllium there.' Legally, I couldn’t make those decisions for myself. That’s nan point."

She ended nan station by acknowledging that while she isn't capable to alteration what she went through, she finds herself asking, "How did truthful galore adults look astatine a insignificant and determine this was acceptable?"

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"That’s precisely why I speak retired today," she concluded. "Children merit laws that protect them. They shouldn’t person to go adults earlier realizing nan rule should person protected them each along."

The caption besides included a telephone to support California Assembly Bill 1267, which intends to permanently extremity kid matrimony by mounting nan minimum ineligible property for matrimony successful California to 18 pinch nary exceptions.

Stodden joined Hutchison erstwhile she was 16 and he was 51, and is now advocating for authorities banning kid matrimony without exception. (JB Lacroix/WireImage)

Stodden and Hutchison sewage joined successful 2011 contempt their 34-year property gap. They divided up and sewage backmost together a fewer times earlier officially calling it quits successful 2016, though divorcement papers were not revenge until March 2018, pinch nan divorcement being finalized successful March 2020.

She announced their divorcement successful an Instagram station featuring her wedding photo, calling it "an affectional day," but assured her fans "it’s for nan better."

Stodden announced her divorcement connected Instagram successful March 2020, saying successful nan caption she now feels taken advantage of.

"I look backmost astatine this image and consciousness absolutely taken advantage of," she wrote. "I’ve been frightened to moreover speak up astir emotion groomed aliases being verbally abused during nan almost 10 twelvemonth matrimony because I was a kid and he was 50 erstwhile we joined but I’m a female now and it’s clip for maine to put my large woman pants connected and speak connected this matter."

She continued: "I’ve felt wholly trapped, manipulated and astatine times abandoned by adults // increasing up successful specified an situation — it became a lonely and acheronian place."

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