Content warning: This article includes a photo that some audiences may find disturbing.
How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris has issued an apology for the creepy and controversial Amy Winehouse-inspired “corpse meat platter” from 11 years ago, which has recently resurfaced.
The controversial meat platter was from a Halloween party hosted by Harris and his husband, David Burtka, back in 2011. At the party, Harris and Burtka featured this creepy meat platter, just three months after the unfortunate death of the famous singer, Amy Winehouse. The platter was decorated to look like the late singer’s corpse, and had a small sign placed next to it that says, “The Corpse of Amy Winehouse.”
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11 years later, the photo of the controversial Halloween meat buffet platter is now resurfacing online and is receiving the same level of backlash as it did back in 2011.
Here’s something I just learned and now I’m angry about, Neil Patrick Harris had a cake made to look like Amy Winehouse’s corpse for his Halloween party. She’d died 3 months earlier. I’m not posting the picture because it’s worse than you can imagine.
— 🔥 🏠 with a Y 🏠 🔥 (@wyntermitchell) December 5, 2021
Y’all, the Neil Patrick Harris/Amy Winehouse thing is even worse than it looks because that wasn’t a cake, it was a meat platter made to look like her dead body. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Google it. You will be disgusted and no longer a NPH fan.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/BertLoch/status/1524086058375385088?s=20&t=7qKSo2w3CQJa2D7BTdIJGQ
I’m glad people are finally dragging NPH for the Amy Winehouse corpse meat platter (it keeps being called a cake but it’s literally beef ribs and pulled pork).
It’s fucking vile and he’s never apologized or acknowledged it. I hope y’all bring the same heat you had for Chrissy.
— Kristina (@ganitsirk) May 15, 2022
I can't believe I didn't know this.
Amy Winehouse had so much talent and was such a beautiful young woman.
Who does this? Who thinks "Hey, it will be hilarious to mock a tragic death with…a CAKE!" 💩
I'm all for offbeat humor but this is genuinely ugly spirited.
— Michelle Hankammer – מיכל✡️ (@Buster_n_Dottie) May 11, 2022
With all the hate comments and the backlash he has received until now, Harris offered his heartfelt apologies to the public.
“A photo recently resurfaced from a Halloween-themed party my husband, and I hosted 11 years ago,” Harris told Entertainment Weekly in his statement. “It was regrettable then, and it remains regrettable now. Amy Winehouse was a once-in-a-generation talent, and I’m sorry for any hurt this image caused.”
Amy Winehouse was a talented British renowned singer. She overcame different challenges in her life such as her drug and alcohol addiction, self-harm, depression, and eating disorders. In 2011, Winehouse died at the age of 27 due to alcohol poisoning. /TV
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