Chelsea Handler is apologizing after she defended praising remarks from Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan in an interview on Monday.
The funny woman and a number of other celebrities first raised eyebrows on June 14 after they shared an old clip from "The Phil Donahue Show" when Farrakhan, who has faced controversy for decades over remarks widely seen as anti-Semitic, was taking questions from the audience. "I learned a lot from watching this powerful video," Handler told her nearly 4 million Instagram followers at the time.
Then, Handler, who is Jewish, doubled down on her opinion, again calling Farrakhan’s words “powerful” on the Daily Beast’s “The Last Laugh” podcast.
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