Halle Berry Apologizes for her Comments

During the latest taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno , Halle Berry, 41, showed Leno images of herself on Photo Booth, a MAC computer program that distorts images.

“She introduced the first photo by saying, ‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!’” The New York Post’s Page Six quoted an audience member as saying.

The picture showed Berry with a huge, distorted nose.

No one laughed.

Leno, The Post reported, then chimed in: “I’m glad you said that and not me.”

According to The Post Berry phoned the paper Monday “near tears,” saying, “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody - and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did.

“What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me. We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’”

She continued, “And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody.”