Miss Universe 2015: Steve Harvey personally apologizes to winner Pia Wurtzbach, wife speaks out

Maybe within another 24 hours or so all of the drama surrounding the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant will have died down, but we are not there entirely just yet.

We begin today with yet another reminder that Steve Harvey still has plenty of friends standing up and supporting him, and of course there’s also his wife. In a post on Instagram, Marjorie Harvey said the following about how he completely owned his mistake moments after crowning Miss Colombia Miss Universe by mistake, before eventually handing the title and the tiara to Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines:

“You are a Stand Up Man and A True Class Act the way you went back out on the stage on live TV and took full responsibility alone. I am so proud to be your wife! I love you.”

Harvey himself has said that he apologized personally to Wurtzbach backstage at the show, and he also said (per People Magazine) at a press conference after the show that it really was just an honest mistake that came from misreading the card:

“I feel horrible for the two countries. I feel horrible for the fans. It was a mistake … The dishonorable thing would be to just leave it like it was. It didn’t deserve to happen that way, but it happened from an honest mistake.”

As we’ve said before at this point, we do genuinely feel bad for the guy. It appears to have been an honest mistake, and while it’s regrettable that it happened, slamming him isn’t going to make anything better now.

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