Gina Rodriguez apologizes for saying the N-word while singing along to a Fugees song

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"Hey, what's up everybody -- I just wanted to reach out and apologize," Rodriguez said on her Instagram Story on Tuesday after getting hit with backlash for singing the N-word while listening to The Fugees' "Ready Or Not." "I am sorry. I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to The Fugees, to a song I love, that I grew up on. I love Lauryn Hill and I really am sorry if I offended you."

Gina Rodriguez issues second apology for N-word video

The former Jane the Virgin star, whose "I am sorry if I offended anyone" first apology didn't land, tried again later Tuesday night. “Watching my own video playing back at me, has shaken me to my core,'" she said in a statement posted to Instagram. "It is humiliating that this has to be a public lesson but it is indeed a much deserved lesson. I feel so deeply protective and responsible to the community of color but I have let this community down. I have some serious learning and growing to do and I am so deeply sorry for the pain I have caused.”