Kendall Jenner has finally addressed THAT controversial Pepsi advert on Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
In April, the model starred in a Pepsi ad that showed her handing a can of soda to a police officer to calm a protest.
People called out the ad for appropriating images of the Black Lives Matter movement – and after just 24 hours the ad was removed.
The 21-year-old has remained quiet about the controversy ever since – but addressed the drama on the season 14 premiere of KUWTK.
“I trusted everyone. I trusted the teams,” she said to the camera. “But after I saw the reaction and I read what people had to say about it, I most definitely saw what went wrong. I was so stuck, and I really didn’t know what to do, that I completely shut down.”
Later in the episode, Kendall spoke to her sister Kim about the situation.
“I feel really bad that anyone was ever offended. I feel really bad that this was taken such a wrong way and I genuinely feel like s***. I have no idea how I’m gonna bounce back from it.”
“I know you’re so sensitive and I know […] you’re the last person to want to hurt someone or be insensitive,” Kim replied. “The only thing you can really do is just be, like, real and honest, because you can’t ignore it.”
“It should affect you in a way where you grow from it and you’re like, ‘OK I’m a better person from it.’ […] But I just wish that you could see that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that it will be OK if you’re just like honest and open.”
Speaking to the camera again, Kendall cried, “I would never purposely hurt someone ever. And I would, obviously, if I knew this was gonna be the outcome, like, I would have never done something like this. But you don’t know when you’re in the moment.”
“I just felt so f***ing stupid. The fact that I would offend other people or hurt other people was definitely not the intent and that’s what got me the most, is that I would ever make anyone else upset.”
