How I Met Your Mother Star Neil Patrick Harris Apologises For Mocking Amy Winehouse, Says “It Was Regrettable Then & It Remains Regrettable Now”

Reacting to the criticism of a resurfaced image from a Halloween party he hosted back in 2011, which included a buffet platter made to look like the corpse of Amy Winehouse, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and ‘Gone Girl’s star Neil Patrick Harris has apologised for his actions in the past, reports ‘Variety’.

Winehouse, a genre-defining jazz vocalist and songwriter, died on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. As per ‘Variety’, a few months later, Harris and his husband, David Burtka, hosted a party with a platter that featured a gruesome fake corpse with a cigarette hanging out of its mouth alongside a note that read, “The Corpse of Amy Winehouse.” Below that, the note detailed what was included in the platter: “Beef ribs, pulled pork, chicken sausage in a spicy BBQ sauce.”

On Monday, Neil Patrick Harris wrote in a statement to ‘Entertainment Weekly’ that the act was “regrettable then, and it remains regrettable now. A photo recently resurfaced from a Halloween-themed party my husband and I hosted 11 years ago.”