Meghan Trainor apologizes for saying 'F lecturers' on her podcast: 'It's not how I really feel'

• Meghan Trainor apologized on TikTok after going through backlash for saying “fuck lecturers” on her podcast.
• Trainor made the remark throughout a dialog about homeschooling her children.
• In her apology video, the singer mentioned her phrases have been “careless” and that it is not how she feels.

Meghan Trainor has apologized for saying “fuck lecturers” on her podcast amid widespread backlash on TikTok.

The “Mom” singer got here beneath fireplace for her feedback about educators within the April 19 episode of her podcast “Workin’ On It,” which is hosted by Trainor and her brother Ryan.

The episode, titled “Workin’ On Motherhood Pt. 2,” featured a dialog with YouTuber Trisha Paytas, which touched on their children.

Whereas the podcast episode seems to have now been edited to take away the second, a clip from it shared by TikToker and trainer @galsgotmoxie over the weekend went viral and drew consideration to Trainor’s controversial remark.

The dialog started with Trainor saying that she’d be homeschooling her children.

“Everybody on TikTok does. They’re like, ‘That is what it is wish to have a child in a faculty in America. I’ve a bulletproof backpack.’ Fuck all that,” Trainor mentioned, referring to the epidemic of lethal college shootings in america.

Paytas added that children and lecturers “might be imply,” noting that lecturers have been their “trauma” once they have been in class. 

“Academics! Fuck lecturers, dude,” Trainor responded.

In a TikTok video, which was posted on Sunday and thanked @galsgotmoxie within the caption for bringing consideration to her feedback, Trainor apologized to “lecturers of TikTok” and “lecturers of the world” for her “careless” comment.

“I just lately mentioned ‘F lecturers’ on a podcast, and it is not how I really feel,” Trainor started. “I used to be fired up as a result of we have been speaking about how sending your child to highschool right here in America is so horrific and what all of us need to undergo — however particularly lecturers — will not be regular and never okay.”

Trainor mentioned that she was additionally reacting to Paytas’ destructive historical past with lecturers and the experiences her personal husband, “Spy Children” star and former youngster actor Daryl Sabara, had along with his lecturers, in addition to having been bullied by lecturers herself.

“So in that second I received indignant and mentioned ‘F lecturers, F these particular human beings again within the day.’ However I didn’t imply that to all lecturers,” she mentioned.

The singer, who’s at present anticipating her second youngster with Sabara, ended her TikTok by stressing her love for lecturers and promising to be “extra cautious” along with her phrases.

“I like lecturers, I struggle for lecturers, I feel they’ve the toughest job they usually’re essentially the most underpaid. They’re essentially the most unappreciated once they actually elevate all of us,” Trainor mentioned. “I do not need to make excuses, I am simply so sorry. I am so sorry to any lecturers who I made really feel unhealthy.”

Representatives for Trainor did not instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.