After leavingRachel Bloom“devastated” with his rudeTwitter remarksduring the Tony Awards,Neil Patrick Harrisis now jokingly asking fans for a laundry list of lavish birthday gifts.
The actor, whoapologizedto Bloom on Wednesday, took to Twitter before issuing the apology to ask fans to send him “expensive and/or well thought out gifts” for his 45th birthday on Friday. He even included mailing instructions in his profile where his well-wishers can ship him their presents, adding “winky-face emoji” to the end of the address.
“What I want for my birthday, Part Two: a newfound resolve to meditate and focus. To calm my mind and create a space for – oh, oh! – and any new VR games for@OculusRiftand/or@htcvive! VR is soooo dope, yo!” he added in a subsequent tweet.
“What I want for my birthday, Part Three: automatons. Moving mechanical marvels, either vintage or contemporary, like this from the amazing Thomas Kuntz. Awesome,” he wrote in another tweet.
Some replied to the tweet reminding Harris that he is a multimillionaire, whereas the majority of his fans are not. Others reminded him that he still owed Bloom a proper apology at the time.
“…you, a very rich famous person, are actually asking people to send you gift…?” asked Alicia Lutes, adding that she hopes “this is a joke.”
“We are poor, Neil, buy it yourself,” wrote one user, while another added, “Can you apologize to @Racheldoesstuff for my birthday?”
A few hours after beginning his birthday list, Harris issued a formal apology to Bloom.
“Sincere apologies to @Racheldoesstuff for my Tony tweet. I failed to research her before pressing ‘send’, and what I thought was a funny comment in our living room must have been far from funny to read, backstage, mid show. As a performer and a parent, I should have know better,” he wrote.
Bloom responded shortly after, writing, “Hi, thank you for this! Apology accepted.”
“It wasn’t a joke. Basically I saw that tweet. And I was kind of devastated,” she said. “I was actually going to tweet, ‘This makes me sad.’ But then I was like, ‘Ehhhhhhhhhh… I don’t want to give him that, necessarily.’ ”
Bloom went on to explain that the two had met before and recently hung out backstage after a Broadway show.
“It was just bizarre to me that it wouldn’t ring a bell. And also, that he wouldn’tGoogleit,” Bloom questioned. “But look, he’s not a writer, so his version of a Twitter joke is to just kind of… live-comment to Twitter followers with kind of random, unformed thoughts.”
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Bloom also explained to GQ that the tweet was particularly hurtful given that her husband, Dan Gregor, was a writer on How I Met Your Mother and even penned a particularly special episode where Harris’ character meets his father for the first time. Bloom revealed that the two actually have a framed picture and script from the episode in their home with Harris in it.
“So it’s, like, a big part of our lives!” Bloom said. “And I guess what I would say is, the thing he said in response [to my tweet] wasn’t really an apology as much as saying, like, “Well said! Thanks for the reminder.”
source: people.com
