Actors' union Equity has apologised to Laurence Fox after calling him a 'disgrace' following his appearance on Question Time
"It's so easy to throw the charge of racism and it's really starting to get boring now."Laurence Fox slams black and working class actors for 'only complaining after becoming famous'
The audience member then described Fox as a"white, privileged male", to which he responded:"To call me a white, privileged male is to be racist." The episode received more than 250 complaints and sparked a social media backlash, which Fox called"water off a duck's back". But he later said he had received death threats and had suffered from"temporary insomnia" after his appearance.Fox had complained on social media that"Equity called for actors to denounce me", saying it had"been very hard to deal with".
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