Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Apologize After Writing Letters In Support Of Danny Masterson

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The couple issued a statement Saturday in a short video posted on social media. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have issued an apology after writing letters in support of Danny Masterson ahead of his sentencing in his Los Angeles rape case.

Kutcher and Kunis took to Instagram on Saturday and posted a video and apologized, saying it was never their intent to undermine the testimony of the victims or re-traumatize them in any way with the letters they submitted to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F.

Olmedo. “We are aware of the pain that has been caused by the character letters on behalf of Danny Masterson,” Kutcher said in the video, to which Kunis followed with, “We support victims.

We have done this historically through our work and will continue to do so in the future.” READ MORE: Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Wrote Letters In Support Of ‘Role Model’ Danny Masterson Prior To Sentencing For Rape Conviction Kutcher then explained that a couple of months ago, Masterson’s family reached out to them and asked if they would write character letters on behalf of Masterson “to represent the person that we knew for 25 years” so that “the judge could take that into full consideration relative to the sentencing.” Masterson was ultimately sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after a jury convicted him on two counts of forcible rape against two women in his Hollywood Hills home in the early 2000s. “The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling,” added Kunis, who starred alongside Kutcher and Masterson on That ’70s Show. “They were intended for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or re-traumatize them in any way,”