Ren & Stimpy creator pens an 11-page "apology" that is met with backlash from his victims

Cartoon Brew

On Friday, John Kricfalusi finally responded to Buzzfeed's March 29 exposé accusing him of sexual misconduct with two teenage girls in the 1990s with an 11-page letter posted to Facebook. He apologized to his two victims, Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice, but wrote of the article: “There is some general truth in it, some things I remember somewhat differently, some not at all. The writer exaggerated and presented some things out of context for tabloid consumption.” As Cartoon Brew pointed out, in a portion of the letter titled "No Excuses," Kricfalusi said he was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD, which he says “makes it almost impossible to control your impulses and obsessions.” Byrd responded to his post on Facebook: "I don’t find any apology strong or heartfelt enough for taking away a person’s adolescent motivation, her hopes to be an artist, and her sexual agency…We don’t accept this non-apology, neither do any of the other girls he doesn’t bother to mention, and it’s a big pile of manipulative crap. There you go."