{"id":10149,"date":"2026-06-03T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/ted-denson-budet-izvinyatsya-vsyu-ostavshuyusya-zhizn-za-vystuplenie-v-grime-imitiruyushhem-temnokozhego-cheloveka-na-vecherinke-v-chest-vupi-goldberg\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:04:13","slug":"ted-denson-will-spend-the-rest-of-his-life-apologizing-for-wearing-makeup-to-imitate-a-black-person-at-a-party-at-whoopi-goldbergs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/ted-denson-budet-izvinyatsya-vsyu-ostavshuyusya-zhizn-za-vystuplenie-v-grime-imitiruyushhem-temnokozhego-cheloveka-na-vecherinke-v-chest-vupi-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Danson &quot;will apologize for the rest of his life&quot; for wearing makeup to impersonate a black man at a party for Whoopi Goldberg."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Ted Danson has explained why he will &quot;apologize for the rest of his life&quot; for his 1993 blackface performance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Danson made fun of Whoopi Goldberg, with whom he was in a relationship at the time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Danson stated that while he had good intentions and wanted to comment on race relations, his intentions were irrelevant.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Ted Danson will forever regret his performance in black makeup in 1993.<\/p>\n<p> Danson, 78, spoke about this on an episode of W. Kamau Bell&#039;s new podcast. <em>\u00ab&quot;Who&#039;s with me?&quot;\u00bb<\/em> Bell, 53, said that before the recording began, he asked Danson if there was anything he didn&#039;t want to talk about and praised Danson for being open to discussing the topic.<\/p>\n<p> In 1993, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson&#039;s then-date, became the target of ridicule at the Friars Club. Although the taunts were later broadcast on Comedy Central, at the time they were largely private affairs.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;The idea is that we&#039;re all going to get in a room and say the most vile things about each other or do the most vile things because we&#039;re inside a club,&quot; Bell said. Danson added, &quot;The most vile and ridiculous things have come out of people&#039;s mouths.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Danson apologized to Goldberg, 70, for having to &quot;defend&quot; him over the years. &quot;The last thing she probably wants is to be put in that situation again,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p> Whoopi Goldberg (left) and Ted Danson (right) at the Friars Club in New York City in 1993. Photo: Mitchell Gerber\/Corbis\/VCG via Getty<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I&#039;ll explain what was going through my head, not as an excuse,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#039;d like to set the record straight and apologize forever. I know what was in my heart. So I have no problem talking about it, but I need to apologize and I want to apologize for the rest of my life, because someone today can go online, you&#039;re right, and say, &#039;What the hell? Wow. I feel betrayed. I&#039;m angry and all that.&#039; And I did that.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Danson explained that at the time, his relationship with Goldberg was ending and they even tried to avoid participating in the roast, but were unable to.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;My brain was like, &#039;Okay, here&#039;s one of the most outrageous, funniest black women in the world at the time. I have to make fun of her. And I&#039;m not a stand-up comedian. I can&#039;t run with bulls,&#039;&quot; he said. Instead, he decided to pursue &quot;performance theater.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Watching footage of other comedians, he thought, &quot;If I were black, I could say all these outrageous things.&quot; He decided to do so using makeup that imitated a black person.<\/p>\n<p> Actor from <em>TV series &quot;The Good Place&quot;\u00ab<\/em> He added that the press at the time was cruel to him and the Oscar winner as a mixed-race couple, focusing only on their intimate relationship. &quot;It couldn&#039;t be because they liked each other or saw something in each other... It had to be just sex, that&#039;s the only reason for such a relationship,&quot; he said. The couple also received threatening letters because of their affair. He wanted to portray their relationship in a comedic way and didn&#039;t realize he was becoming increasingly &quot;angrier.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;There was some real, fucking edgy shit in there,&quot; he said. He added that at the time, Goldberg said she didn&#039;t care if people used the N-word because being racist didn&#039;t require &quot;using dirty language.&quot; &quot;I kind of jumped on that,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I thought I could pull it off,&quot; he said. The idea was &quot;so arrogant and stupid of me.&quot; He showed the number to Goldberg (and guessed she didn&#039;t want to trample on his creativity) and worked on it for months. But once he started talking, everything changed. <\/p>\n<p> Ted Danson in 2025. Photo: Manny Karabel\/Getty.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;20% viewers get it and think it&#039;s pretty cool. 30% viewers get it and fucking hate it. 50% viewers don&#039;t get it and fucking hate it and hate me,&quot; he said. &quot;And I kept going.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Bell said Danson assumed the animal wasn&#039;t going to leave the room. &quot;It left the room before I even got there,&quot; Danson said. When he returned to the hotel, New York City Mayor David Dinkins called him.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;My poor manager said he couldn&#039;t open the door to his hotel room because there were so many notes stuck under the door,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p> Goldberg has repeatedly defended Danson, stating in 1993 <em>The New York Times newspaper,<\/em> that this situation &quot;caused great pain to a person who did not deserve it.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> However, Goldberg&#039;s willingness to forgive Danson for his offensive performance did not relieve him of the need to acknowledge the harm he had caused.<\/p>\n<p> Danson said his current wife, Mary Steenburgen, whom he married in 1995, &quot;couldn&#039;t understand&quot; why he did it. Years later, during the Black Lives Matter movement, videos of him in makeup imitating a black man resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I was scared,&quot; he admitted. Jane Fonda introduced him to Heather McGee, the author. <em>The Price of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together\u00ab<\/em> , to whom he says he is &quot;eternally grateful&quot; for helping him reflect and discuss his actions. &quot;She didn&#039;t make excuses for me. She said, &#039;This is an opportunity I hope you take advantage of.&#039;&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I will always apologize,&quot; the star of the series said.\u00bb <em>Cheers<\/em> \u00bb&quot;...I also used to say for a long time, &#039;I knew what my intentions were. My intention was love.&#039; It doesn&#039;t matter. Your intentions don&#039;t matter. What matters is the impact you have on people. And if you haven&#039;t thought about that, you need to do it.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> He continued, &quot;I thought I could compete with the strong guys, but I couldn&#039;t. It was stupid, it wasn&#039;t me, it was wrong, and it hurt.&quot; For a long time, he convinced himself his intentions were good. &quot;Well, it can&#039;t be helped. You did it. And you made such an impact. So I apologize again to everyone listening for being arrogant enough to think I had anything to offer.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Bell thanked Danson for speaking out and said he found it &quot;admirable&quot; that the actor spent &quot;so much time talking publicly about this issue&quot; rather than continuing to press his own agenda.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I was complicit by not telling my story when it came out,&quot; Danson said. Bell added that while it&#039;s normal to feel guilty, &quot;now we have to move on to action.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Read the original article on People.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Ted Danson explained why he will &quot;apologize for the rest of his life&quot; for his 1993 blackface performance. 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