Steve Harvey Opens Up About Miss Universe Gaffe

Steve Harvey

TV and syndicated ratio star STEVE HARVEY finally went public to explain what happened on the Miss Universe pageant.  following last month's well-publicized gaffe during THE MISS UNIVERSE pageant.

Speaking on his radio show, HARVEY recalled, "When the mistake was made, when I said the wrong woman's name, I can only give information I had. No one knows, and that information is not in the teleprompter because you've got two women standing there. I read what was on the teleprompter, then I read what was on the card ... it said first runner-up. Now, what happened, how it got like that, how it was done, how it was worked on, that's neither here nor there. I said the name that was on the card. When I walked off, everything was cool ... and then all hell broke loose.

"Did I make a mistake? Yes I did, wholeheartedly," he admitted. "And at this point in the game, I'm not in the finger-pointing business and rolling people under the bus. So, I did what I was trained to do by my father ... You make a mistake and you own up to it. And I tried to fix it, I tried to fix it right there."

HARVEY still feels bad for MISS COLOMBIA, ARIADNA GUTIERREZ. He has reached out to her, but has yet to get a response. "How this must have made the woman from COLOMBIA [feel] … I felt for her more than me," he said.

Listen to the entire explanation here.

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