Sarah Silverman makes shocking revelation about using racial slurs in her comedy

Sarah Silverman recently recalled her early stand-up years and how she has overcome her habit of using racial slurs.

The 54-year-old American comedian and actress gave an interview to Rolling Stone, where she opened up about how her comedy has evolved, revealing that she once had a thought that she could use slurs in her stand-up performances because she knew her intentions were “always good” and she was “playing a character.”

Siverman explained, “I felt like the temperature of the world around me at the time was, ‘We are all liberal so we can say the n-word. We aren’t racist, so we can say this derogatory stuff.”

“I was playing a character that was arrogant and ignorant, so I thought it was OK. Looking back, my intentions were always good, but they were fucking ignorant,” she added.

For the unversed, Silverman faced heavy criticism for wearing blackface in an episode of her show, The Sarah Silverman Program, in 2002.

The Wreck-It Ralph star was also called out by Asian American activist groups for using slurs about Asians in her jokes.

Notably, she publicly apologized for saying inappropriate things and grew more “PC.”

Reflecting on apology, the Primetime Emmy-winner stated, “I don’t think of myself as being PC out of fear. Some people got mad at me for apologizing.”

“I only did that because I was sorry. That’s a really great rule of thumb: Only apologize when you’re sorry. Always apologize when you’re sorry,” Sarah Silverman concluded.