'The Good Place' producer in hot water for racist tweets against Asian Americans

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Megan Amram with The Good Place cast members Manny Jacinto and Jameela Jamil.

A producer and co-writer on NBC’s The Good Place, has apologized for posting offensive tweets several years ago that have resurfaced.
Megan Amram, 32, posted a long apology days after decade-old tweets from , were discovered and circulated around social media, Many of her tweets were racist towards Asian Americans.

“I would like to address some tweets from over the past decade that have been circulating recently,” Amram tweeted out late Wednesday, June 17. “I fear this will not convey everything that I want it to, but I am speaking from the heart and trying my best to communicate my sincere regret. I am deeply embarrassed and more apologetic than you can ever know.”

Cartoonist Joshua Luna tweeted in January of this year how he disliked how Filipinos are depicted throughout the series' four year run.

In her apology, posted almost six-months since her offensive tweets were discovered, Amran especially expressed her regret for offending Asian Americans. In the last four years, she has written for The Good Place, which features Filipino American Manny Jacinto and Indian American Jameela Jamil.

“My instinct is to share the varying degrees of explanation for every tweet that has offended, but I know full well there are no excuses. I will be sorry for as long as I live that I have hurt even one person, and I very much understand why my words have hurt many more. Also, I specifically would like to apologize to the Asian American community, who I have hurt most with my tweets. I very much understand why you are hurt,” she wrote.

Amran said since wrote the offensive tweets, she has grown as a person and the postings no longer reflect the person she is today.

Mental Health: Jameela Jamil reveals her suicide attempt

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Actress Jameela Jamil urges anyone considering suicide to seek help.

On World Mental Health Day last Thursday (Oct. 10), Good Place star Jameela Jamil revealed in a series of tweets that she tried to kill herself.

She's beautiful. She's in a successful TV show. She should be on top of the world. However, Jamil's confession shows that anyone can fall prey to mental illness.

Jamil, 33, has previously opened up about some "traumatic" experiences in her life, such as anorexia in her teens, a car accident that bound her to bed for a year when she was 17, anxiety, depression, and being raped in her 20s. 

The actress then developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but a type of therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helped her recover.

In her tweets, she emphasized that for anyone considering taking their own life, there is help available. "Things can turn around," she tweeted. "I promise."

"For a long time I had severe PTSD. EMDR pretty much used a magic trick. It removed my trauma," Jamil told The Sunday Times. "I can remember horrific things and feel like they happened to other people. I couldn't have kept myself together without it."

"I'm aware of what it's like to not be able to go to the toilet by myself, or to be able to breathe because I had asthma, or be able to hear, because I was deaf as a child," she told Elle in an interview. I also stopped menstruating when I had an eating disorder, so my body has been in jeopardy so many times that I've, frankly, by the age of thirty, a little bit late but better late than never, learned to treat it with lots of kindness and respect."

"I don't talk shit to myself anymore. Every time it crops up I stick up for myself the way that I would for a friend or for a stranger even," she told Elle. "The things that women say to themselves in their head, they would never tolerate being said to someone that they love. So I've decided to be my own best friend."

If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.
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