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Actor and businessman Blake Lively said she is “mortified” by her joke about Kate Middleton’s “Photoshop fails,” and the apology came after the Princess of Wales confirmed on Friday that she had undergone anti-inflammatory treatment. cancer.
“I’m sure no one cares today, but I feel like I have to admit it,” Lively said in a message shared Friday on her Instagram account. “I made a silly post about the ‘Photoshop fail’ frenzy and oh man, that post has me mortified today. I’m sorry. Sending love and good wishes to everyone, always.”
On March 15, Lively posted a comically edited photo promoting her Betty Buzz drink line, showing her sitting poolside with a can of Betty Booze with an enlarged thumb and a lemon floating above her head. In it Instagram post since deleted, Lively had written: “So excited to share this new photo I just took today to announce our 4 new products @bettybuzz and @bettybooze! “Now you know why I’ve been missing.”
That was a reference to visual anomalies in a photograph released March 10 by the Royal Family depicting Middleton and her three children, prompting the AP and other news agencies to remove the image from their services. Middleton later acknowledged: “Like many amateur photographers, I experiment with editing from time to time.” The controversy generated feverish speculation about Middleton’s prolonged absence from the public eye. Amid conspiracy theories about the princess’s whereabouts, celebrities including Jimmy Kimmel and Jamie Lee Curtis asked people to respect Middleton’s privacy.
In a video statement released Friday, Middleton said his cancer diagnosis was discovered after abdominal surgery and that he is now in the “early stages” of preventive chemotherapy. “It’s been an incredibly difficult couple of months for our entire family, but I’ve had a fantastic medical team that has taken great care of me, so I’m very grateful,” Middleton said in the video.
Here is Lively’s apology that she posted on Instagram Stories:
