‘BIG Brother” contestant Amber Siyavus is out of the house now – and trying to backpedal on her comments that Jews are “money-hungry” and “a**holes.”
Cameras caught Amber, a Las Vegas waitress, last month making disparaging remarks about Jews because her main rival, Eric Stein, was Jewish.
It was the most controversial moment of the season.
But when the show ended last week, contestants emerged from isolation and Amber discovered that her comments had set off a serious backlash against her and the show.
“I made a comment when I was upset with Eric – I made it about Jewish people and people from New York,” she said during an interview with Reality News Online posted over the weekend.
“Being upset, people tend to say things they don’t mean. That came from a really bad place, and from the bottom of my heart, I am truly sorry – I send my apologies to anyone I offended,” she said.
“I have friends that are Jewish and friends from New York,” she said. “I am not prejudiced, and I am truly, truly, truly sorry.”
On the show, she was captured telling another contestant that the majority of Jews she knew were “selfish” and that her mother had taught you could identify Jews by “their last name” and “by their nose.”
Since she has been free to talk, however, Amber has given only one interview – and that was to a reality-TV fan site where the interviewer did not ask her directly about the anti-Semitic comments.
He simply asked at the end of the interview if she had anything to add.
That’s when she volunteered the apology.