Ellie Kemper has publicly apologized for attending a debutante ball back in 1999, which she did not know at the time had a “racist” and “sexist” past.
“When I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown,” the “The Office” star recalled on Instagram yesterday, June 7.
The said event was the Veiled Prophet Ball held annually in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States.
“The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past,” Kemper said.
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