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Edward Helmore

Lauren Boebert apologizes again for ‘maybe overtly animated’ behavior at theater

US Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado.
Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado. Photograph: Shutterstock

Lauren Boebert has issued a second apology for her now infamous theatre date which saw her get ejected from watching a Beetlejuice: The Musical performance after she openly vaped in the audience, groped her companion and was graphically felt up in kind.

In an interview on Sunday with the conservative One America News Network, the far-right Colorado congresswoman attributed the behavior – recorded on security camera footage – to what she described as her being “maybe overtly animated”. Boebert, 36, thus implied that her extrovertedness had somehow fused with a stage production that the New York Times reviewed as “a jaw-dropping funhouse”.

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