Mark Ronson has walked back a comment he made while appearing on a British morning show last week.
The famed producer made headlines after he said he identified as sapiosexual – a label for people who are attracted to intelligence over looks or gender.
“I didn’t know that there was a word for it,” Ronson told the hosts of Good Morning Britain. “Yes, I feel like I identify as sapiosexual.”
But on Wednesday, Ronson told Rolling Stone said: “I do not consider myself part of any marginalized community and I apologize if anybody misunderstood or took offence to it.”
The 44-year-old, whose marriage to French actress and singer Joséphine de La Baume ended in divorce last year, said his comment became something bigger than it should have been.
“It sounds like I went on a TV show to be like, ‘Guys, I have some big news!’ And the fact that I would go on and sort of declare myself — like as a heterosexual white male — part of any marginalized community was terrifying to me, or just embarrassing.”