Twinkle Khanna apologises for her comments on Mallika Dua

The Akshay Kumar-Mallika Dua controversy became a huge one after Twinkle Khanna also jumped into the fray. She defended the actor's comment on Mallika saying, humour has to be seen in the right context.' And she didn't even stop at that. The former actress and now a celebrated author went ahead to crack lame jokes on Mallika and her father Vinod Dua who took serious offence to Akshay's, Mallika ji aap bell bajao, mei aapko bajata hoon.' Now after all that, she has issued a long apology letter on her Facebook account blaming it on the trolls who dragged her daughter Nitara into the controversy. She said it was purely an emotional outburst.

Twinkle writes, "Unwise Wisecracks -As I reflect on my actions this past week, I realize that I got pulled into this debate not as a social commentator but as a wife and unlike my normal, slightly rational self, my reaction was purely emotional and without perspective, and I have been rather miserable about it ever since. I would like to apologize to everyone who felt that I was trivializing the cause of feminism especially because I strongly believe in equality and have been a feminist from the time I was a young woman, much before I even knew the term. I think this came at a point where I was already reeling from an onslaught of abuse against various members of my family, which started with vicious and personal comments about my mother and went on to a widely shared open letter where the writer as a comeback for my comments about Karva Chauth tried to fling muck at every single member of my family. So when in this latest episode regarding my husband, my five-year-old was also dragged in for something that she had absolutely nothing to do with, I reached breaking point. And with my protective instincts in overdrive, I reacted irrationally with the only tools I have that help me retain my sanity in this fishbowl existence -words and lame jokes -though they have got me into trouble often enough in the past as well.

Read the full statement here...

We wonder what made Twinkle understand the gravity of that comment all of a sudden.