Cher apologized for her recent controversial tweet about the murder of George Floyd after a soul-searching.
The ‘Turn Back Time’ singer has been under fire for several days after sharing a tweet about the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, who is accused of killing Floyd when he was on his neck knelt during an arrest in May 2020. Cher is accused of acting like a “white savior” by noticing that she felt she could have prevented death if she had been there during the incident.
Although she had earlier issued an apology for the tweet, the star took to Twitter again on Tuesday to re-note how trustworthy she is about her comments and promised to do better with her social media presence going forward.
“These last days have been hard, soul-searching, painful people. My wording was wrong / imprecise,” she wrote. “If I’m too emotional, I have to wait, walk away, then twenty.”
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Cher continues: “I Felt Sorrow, & Did Wish I Could Have Helped George. Sometimes you can feel what you can not explain in a twt. Sorry is all I have.”
In her original, since deleted tweet, Cher wrote that she had talked to her mother about the trial.
“Talk to Mom and she said, ‘I watched a trial of a cop who killed George Floyd and cried,'” it read. “I said, ‘Mom, I know it’s going to sound SENSE, but .. I thought … maybe I should have been there, … I could have helped. ‘
While the setback was raging, the star addressed the controversy in a follow-up tweet, pointing out that she had annoyed people and said she could not have an honest, emotional opinion about the trial.
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Cher apologized for her controversial tweet about the murder of George Floyd.
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“Wrestling with this twt, because I thought some people would not understand it, or believe an entertainer can have honest emotions about a person, suffering and dying, even if it is only shown on television. You do not know what I did not have finished, who I am, or what I believe. I CAN, I HAVE, AND I WILL..HELP, ” she wrote.
Hours later, however, the star went on Twitter again to apologize unequivocally to anyone she upset in the Black community with her words. She said the apology came after talking to a friend about the issue.
“I just got off the phone with friend Karen. Tell her what happened, and realize, you can piss off Ppl and hurt them by not knowing everything that” is NOT appropriate “to say. I know Ppl apologize if they’re in a jam, BUT TO GOD🙏🏼, IM REALLY sorry if I upset anyone in the Blk community. I know myI️, ” she wrote.
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Cher appears to have been following the trial closely, tweeting her thoughts on it over the past week. In a tweet of March 31, 2021, the star praised the witnesses who testified about what they saw during the longer than 9 minutes in which Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.
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“Feel so incredibly sad for the brave person who stood their ground to testify, and Chronicle to see the murder of George Floyd for the whole world,” she wrote on Wednesday. “It was Americans who did not walk away from a fellow human being who had his last breath … crushed out of his body.”