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Jason Alexander<\/strong><\/a> is issuing a public apology to Courtney Stodden<\/strong><\/a> after she slammed the actor for their Funny or Die<\/em> comedy sketch in which he rubbed a phone on her breasts when she was a minor.<\/p>\n “Looking back at the comedy sketch in which Ms. Stodden and I participated in 2012, I completely agree that it was inappropriate and I truly regret it,\u201d the Seinfeld actor, 66, said in a statement to Us.<\/em> \u201cBut more importantly, I am deeply sorry for any harm or distress it has caused Ms. Stodden. I offer her my sincerest apologies.”<\/p>\n Stodden, 31, publicly called out Alexander<\/a> via Instagram on Monday, July 20, while looking back at the comedy sketch, which parodied daytime television and featured Alexander using a cell phone to \u201cassess the quality\u201d of Stodden\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n \u201cI was 17 years old in this photo,\u201d she wrote alongside a screenshot from the skit. \u201cThe older I get, the more impossible this is to understand. During this comedy sketch, Jason Alexander repeatedly rubbed his phone across my breasts while saying there was \u2018no signal\u2019 in my head but \u2018plenty of signal\u2019 in my chest. Later in the sketch, he joked that when I turned 18 he\u2019d like to take me behind the couch and \u2018have his way\u2019 with me.\u201d<\/p>\n Courtney Stodden Reveals She \u2018Almost Ran Away\u2019 From Jared Safier on Their Wedding Night<\/a><\/p>\n Stodden also noted that Alexander is credited as a writer of the episode.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an adult, that fact has become harder \u2014 not easier \u2014 for me to understand. I was a minor. I didn\u2019t have the legal power to decide whether I wanted to participate. The contracts were signed by adults,\u201d she wrote, adding that her paycheck went to her then-husband, Doug Hutchison<\/strong>, who was 50 when he married a 16-year-old Stodden in 2011. The pair later split in 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cI was the only child in the room,\u201d Stodden recalled of the sketch. \u201cI felt so alone. Looking back now, I don\u2019t see comedy. I see a 17-year-old girl whose body became part of an adult joke.\u201d<\/p>\n She concluded, \u201cPeople still say, \u2018You chose to be there.\u2019 Legally, I couldn\u2019t make those decisions for myself. That\u2019s the point. I can\u2019t change what happened to me, but I can ask myself: How did so many adults look at a minor and decide this was acceptable? That\u2019s exactly why I speak out today. Children deserve laws that protect them. They shouldn\u2019t have to become adults before realizing the law should have protected them all along.\u201d<\/p>\n Courtney Stodden Unveils Breast Reduction Results in Lingerie Selfie After Removing \u2018Huge Implants\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Stodden has campaigned against child marriage since her divorce from Hutchison. In addition to publicly speaking out against her ex on several occasions, Stodden has taken aim at others who allegedly exploited her in her youth. Last month, she slammed television personality <\/a>Dr. Drew Pinsky<\/strong><\/a>, claiming that he forced her to undergo an exam of her breasts on live television when she was a minor.<\/p>\n \u201cDr. Drew had me on his show when I was 16 and had me undergo an ultrasound to see if my breasts were real or if I was lying about my breasts,\u201d she wrote via Instagram. \u201cI wasn\u2019t an underage girl. I was a minor trapped in a situation that I wasn\u2019t able to get out of legally. I had no rights at the time. The money he paid me to be on the show went straight to my abuser.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Drew has not publicly responded to the allegations. His wife, <\/a>Susan Pinsky<\/strong><\/a>, wrote via an Instagram comment, \u201cI would love to talk to her on Ask Drew. If @courtneystodden wants to duke it out with Dr. Drew.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Alexander is issuing a public apology to Courtney Stodden after she slammed the actor for their Funny or Die comedy sketch in which he rubbed a phone on her breasts when she was a minor. “Looking back at the comedy sketch in which Ms. Stodden and I participated in 2012, I completely agree that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Melissa-Gilbert-Celebrates-Dick-Van-Dykes-100th-Birthday-With-Throwback.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512701,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512700\/revisions\/2512701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}