‘Seinfeld’ alum Jason Alexander apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ Courtney Stodden comedy sketch: ‘I truly regret it’

Jason Alexander is apologizing for his “inappropriate” drama sketch pinch a then-underage Courtney Stodden.

“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,” nan “Seinfeld” alum told Page Six successful a connection Tuesday.

“But much importantly, I americium profoundly sorry for immoderate harm aliases distress it has caused Ms. Stodden,” he added. “I connection her my sincerest apologies.”

On Monday, Stodden took to Instagram and called retired Alexander for nan arguable 2012 “Funny aliases Die” sketch, titled “The Don Clay Show pinch Courtney Stodden,” successful which nan character rubbed a telephone against her breasts.

“I was 17 years aged successful this photo. The older I get, nan much intolerable this is to understand. 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,” she began successful nan caption of nan post.

“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 recalled, noting that Alexander is listed arsenic a writer connected nan sketch successful summation to starring successful it alongside Stodden and her then-husband, Doug Hutchison, according to IMDb.

“As an adult, that truth has go harder—not easier—for maine to understand. I was a minor. I didn’t person nan ineligible powerfulness to determine whether I wanted to participate. The contracts were signed by adults. The paycheck went to Doug.”

Stodden, now 31, said she doesn’t spot nan sketch arsenic drama looking backmost connected it 14 years later and recalled being nan “only kid successful nan room” of nan accumulation and emotion “so alone.”

“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.”

“I can’t alteration what happened to maine but I tin inquire myself: How did truthful galore adults look astatine a insignificant and determine this was acceptable?” she concluded her post. “That’s precisely why I speak retired today. Children merit laws that protect them. They shouldn’t person to go adults earlier realizing nan rule should person protected them each along.”

In a connection to Page Six astir nan sketch, Stodden said: “At 17, I was a insignificant moving successful an situation wherever nan adults astir maine were responsible for my information and well-being. Looking backmost arsenic an adult, I spot those experiences very otherwise than I did astatine nan time.”

“My logic for speaking retired now isn’t astir revisiting nan past for its ain sake… it’s astir helping create a early wherever children are amended protected and wherever adults successful positions of powerfulness are held to a higher standard,” she added.

Stodden and Hutchison infamously wed successful 2011 erstwhile he was 51 and she was conscionable 16. She has since branded nan “Green Mile” character arsenic a “predator” and “pedophile” for nan union.

Hutchison, now 66, has dismissed his ex-wife’s claim.

Stodden filed for divorce from Hutchison successful 2018 and their divorce was finalized in 2020.

She is now married to movie and TV shaper Jared Safier.

Stodden’s mother, notably, gave support for Hutchison to wed her girl — thing Stodden has said her mother has many times apologized for allowing to happen.

The “Celebrity Big Brother” alum currently uses her level to advocator for nan passing of AB 1267, a bipartisan measure that would group nan minimum property for matrimony to 18 pinch nary exceptions successful California.