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Fey also explained why she never apologized for hurting some of her fans.

\"I have decided that the culture of apology is not for me, so what I do is I promise, I swear to God, anyone who has met me, I hear you and I will learn ... but I am also not going to stop trying,\" she said.

It's not the first time Fey has ignored calls to apologize for her work. When the Netflix show she co-created, \"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,\" cast \"30 Rock\" star Jane Krakowski to portray a Native American woman, Fey didn't budge.

In fact, in a 2015 interview with Net-a-Porter, she said she refuses \"to explain jokes.\"

\"I feel like we put so much effort into writing and crafting everything, they need to speak for themselves,\" she continued. \"There’s a real culture of demanding apologies, and I’m opting out of that.\"

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