Florence Pugh has said she is "truly sorry" for appropriating cultures when she was younger, apologizing in a lengthy statement on Instagram.
The Little Women star said that in order to confront racism, "we have to look at ourselves and see how we were adding to this problem." Pugh added that she was "uneducated" and "unread" at the time, and has learned to silence her "white fragility" to acknowledge her past mistakes.
In the post on social media, Pugh recounted discussing cultural appropriation for the first time with a friend when she was 18 after she had styled her hair into cornrows.
She recalled being shocked to discover that the hairstyle had been banned at her friend's school because of cultural appropriation.
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