Rev Run’s daughter Angela Simmons apologises for wearing gun-shaped purse at 2024 BET Awards

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Run-DMC – has apologised for wearing a gun-shaped bag at this year’s BET Awards.The reality TV star and entrepreneur recently came under fire after she posed with an emerald green, rhinestoned clutch on the red carpet at the ceremony last Sunday (June 30).

In photos, she would point the purse as if it were a real gun, aiming it at photographers with a smile.Some people took to social media to share their disdain for the move.

One X/Twitter user said that – due to Simmons’ son’s father and her current boyfriend Yo Gotti’s brother both being “murdered as a result of gun violence” – the accessory wasn’t a good idea.

Another believed the Pastry footwear creator was “trying so hard to be something she [was] not”.In response to the controversy, Simmons took to her Instagram Stories feed to apologise to those offended by the bag.“When I chose the purse, I believed it was cute and unique, and made a poor decision in using it as an accessory to amplify my beauty,” she wrote to her eight million followers on the app.“I deeply regret that this item, which symbolises a gun, was inappropriate and insensitive, especially given my personal and community experiences with gun violence.”Simmons – known for starring in reality shows Run’s House and Growing Up Hip Hop – called gun violence “a disease that has taken too many lives”.Sutton Joseph Tennyson, Sr. – the father of Simmons’ now-seven-year-old son, Sutton Jr. – was shot and killed in November 2018.