Meghan Trainor says she’s sorry over ‘careless’ remarks about teachers on podcast
‘I’m so sorry’: Meghan Trainor apologizes for ‘careless’ comments about teachers and says anger over school shootings led to inappropriate remarks
Meghan Trainor said she regrets the comments she made about teachers on a recent podcast, saying her anger over the spate of school shootings led to the misguided comments.
“Teachers of TikTok and teachers of the world, I recently said ‘F teachers’ on the podcast and I don’t feel that way,” the 29-year-old singer-songwriter said in a clip from TikTok Sunday.
The outspoken musician continued, “I was excited because we talked about how it’s so horrific to send your kid to school here in America.”
The Nantucket, Massachusetts native said she was engrossed in the moment on her podcast, Workin’ On It, along with her brother Ryan Trainor, 30, and guest influencer Trisha Paytas, 34.
She said that both Paytas and her sibling conveyed negative past experiences with educators, leading her to make the flippant comment.
The latest: Meghan Trainor, 29, said she regretted comments she made about teachers on a recent podcast, saying her anger over the spate of school shootings led to the misguided comments
The All About That Bass performer, who is expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara – the couple are parents to two-year-old son Riley – clarified that she “didn’t mean” to direct the comment at “all the teachers.”
Trainor added: ‘I love teachers, I fight for teachers. I think they have the hardest jobs and are the most underpaid.
“They are most undervalued when they literally educate us all. I don’t want to make excuses, I just want it [say,] I’m so sorry.’
Wednesday’s episode of the podcast focused on parenting, as Paytas and husband Moses Hacmon welcomed daughter Malibu last September.
Trainor said she and her husband plan to homeschool their children when the time comes because they are alarmed by what they are seeing on social media in response to America’s ongoing epidemic of school shootings.
She said, “Everyone on TikTok is saying, ‘This is what it’s like to have kids in America. I’ve got a bulletproof backpack.’ I was like, ‘F*** all that’…f*** teachers, dude.”
The Grammy-winning artist said she was signing off the chain of events into a learning experience.
“I am so sorry to all the teachers I made feel bad and I will remind myself that my words can definitely have consequences and I will be more careful,” she said.
Trainor said: ‘Teachers of TikTok and teachers of the world, I recently said ‘F teachers’ on the podcast and I don’t feel that way’
The All About That Bass artist, who is expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara – the couple are parents to two-year-old son Riley – clarified that she “didn’t mean” to direct the comment at “all the teachers”
The Nantucket, Massachusetts native said she was engrossed in the moment during her podcast, Workin’ On It, along with her brother Ryan Trainor, 30, and guest influencer Trisha Paytas, 34