The bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who officiated Aretha Franklin’s funeral, apologized, to singer Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage with the joke he made about her name.
This is coming after Grande’s performance and the Bishop brought her to the podium, where he cracked a joke about her name sounding like a Taco Bell menu item while awkwardly greeting her on the stage and images that captured the moment Ellis’ hand holding Grande well above her waist, with his fingers pressing against one side of her chest surfaced online and went viral.
While apologizing in an interview with The Associated Press at the cemetery where Franklin was interred late Friday, the Bishop said;
“It would never be my intention to touch any woman’s breast. … I don’t know I guess I put my arm around her. Maybe I crossed the border, maybe I was too friendly or familiar but again, I apologize.
I personally and sincerely apologize to Ariana and to her fans and to the whole Hispanic community. When you’re doing a program for nine hours you try to keep it lively, you try to insert some jokes here and there,” he added.
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