After coming under fire for publicly berating a TV journalist on social media, Paget Brewster has deleted the damning post and apologized.
On Sunday, the Criminal Minds: Evolution actress said she “profoundly regrets” telling ScreenRant’s Shealyn Scott “you suck” for her coverage of the show, encouraging her to get a different job.
“Hi guys, I was mean to Shealyn Scott last night and I profoundly regret it,” wrote Brewster on X. “Shame on me for insulting a human being for doing their job. I’m very sorry, Shealyn. And I’m sorry to those who follow me that you saw me behave like that. Turns out, last night, I sucked.”
Brewster’s apology comes after she the actress insulted Scott for posting “bad pics and bad reviews” of the show, despite the article she linked featuring a Paramount-approved still of Brewster.
“Hello critic Shealyn Scott,” Brewster’s since-deleted original post read. “You’re young. You don’t know that bad pics and bad reviews can lead to 350 people losing their jobs. Sell vintage. Work at a shelter. Do something better than what you do now. Because right now you suck.”
Brewster’s original post was met with backlash from those defending Scott. “Publicly telling a young woman that she sucks because she wrote an article criticizing the 10 episode structure of Criminal Minds is kinda gross. No Paget Brewster, right now you suck,” one person wrote.
“I love Paget so much but this is an insane response to someone just (rightly) criticizing the way shows have all become like 10 eps a season and essentially just saying they want MORE of your show,” another posted.
“I know for a fact Paget got tons of hate for playing Prentiss,” another post reads. “It’s evil to treat another young woman the same way.”
Having debuted on Season 2 of Criminal Minds in 2006, Brewster is back as Emily Prentiss in season 19, rebranded by Paramount+ in 2022 as Criminal Minds: Evolution after the parent show’s original 15-season run on CBS ended in 2020.
