Ellie Kemper on 1999 Involvement in Controversial Debutante Ball: ‘Ignorance Is No Excuse’

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Gallery: 25 times celebs should have just stayed quiet (Espresso) Her sincere apology impressed her African-American Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt co-star Tituss Burgess, who took to social media on Tuesday and wrote: "I love my Ellie. .

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Ellie Kemper has the love and support of her co-star, Tituss Burgess. The 42-year-old actor, who played Titus Andromedon in the Netflix comedy series, took to Instagram on Monday to respond to Kemper's statement about her involvement in a 1999 debutante ball.Reposting the 41-year-old actress' apology in full, Burgess wrote, «I love my Ellie ❤️, Oh, & P.S.

Ellie Kemper has the love and support of her co-star, Titus Burgess. The 42-year-old actor, who played Titus Andromedon in the Netflix comedy series, took to Instagram on Monday to respond to Kemper's statement about her involvement in a 1999 debutante ball.Reposting the 41-year-old actress' apology in full, Burgess wrote, «I love my Ellie ❤️, Oh, & P.S.

Ellie Kemper’s "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" co-star Tituss Burgess is showing his support after she issued an apology for her involvement in the Veiled Prophet Ball.  The 41-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to issue a statement apologizing after she faced backlash over photos that were discovered during Memorial Day weekend that showed her participating in a 1999 event known in St.

Tituss Burgess, one of the Emmy-nominated stars of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is reacting to his co-star Ellie Kemper‘s apology for her participation in a pageant that has racist history.

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Ellie Kemper has addressed the criticism she's received on social media after a newspaper article on her being crowned the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, Missouri, when she was 19 years old resurfaced.According to the St.

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office, took to social media following backlash surrounding her involvement in the Veiled Prophet Ball in St Louis.“The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past,” Kemper wrote on Instagram.“I was not aware of this history at the time, but ignorance is no excuse. I was old enough to have educated myself before getting involved.“I unequivocally deplore, denounce, and reject white supremacy.

Ellie Kemper has responded to the recent surfacing of her participation in a St. Louis debutante ball that has origins in early 20th Century racism and anti-Semitism, with the former Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star saying she was not aware of the event’s history but that “ignorance is no excuse.”

Ellie Kemper is responding to the controversy she was involved with last week when it was discovered that she was crowned the queen of the 1999 Veiled Prophet Ball when she was 19.

Ellie Kemper has broken her silence after old photos showed the star participating in a debutante ball years ago that is linked to an organization that’s been accused of racism. "Hi guys – when I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown," the actress wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Monday.