Neil Patrick Harris has apologised after he created a meat platter to look like Amy Winehouse's corpse just months after the singer's tragic death.
The horrifying photo taken during the How I Met Your Mother star's 2010 halloween party was branded "f****** disgusting" by Twitter users.
“A photo recently resurfaced from a Halloween-themed party my husband [David Burtka] and I hosted 11 years ago,” Harris said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly Monday.
“It was regrettable then, and it remains regrettable now.”
He added, “Amy Winehouse was a once-in-a-generation talent, and I’m sorry for any hurt this image caused.”
In the Tweet, which has since been deleted, party attendee Justin Mikita, wrote: "Look who showed up at @ActuallyNPH & @GourmetMD's Halloween party last night. Looking good."
The meat platter, which looked disturbingly real was of Amy's body on a morgue table.
The sculpture was missing an eye and her mouth was wide open, revealing bloody teeth.
Her chest was split open in the style of a post mortem and beside her head was a note that read: "The corpse of Amy Winehouse".
The photo was taken just three months after the Back to Black singer's death, but 11 years later it's been doing the rounds on social media.
"I don’t care if it was 10 years ago, Neil Patrick Harris getting an ‘Amy Winehouse’s Corpse’ meat platter 3 months after her tragic death is so disturbing.
"That’s someone’s daughter, friend, loved one, and is undeniably her,” one person tweeted.
“The way amy winehouse was treated before and after her death is so insanely disgusting :/ she deserved so much better. also f–k you neil patrick harris,” a second person wrote.
“Amy Winehouse dies tragically young and you serve a replica of her corpse as a meat platter shortly after her death? That’s next level deplorable,” a third agreed.
However, not everyone was up in arms about the distasteful platter.
So Neil Patrick Harris apologised for an 11 year old Amy Winehouse joke. Talk about grave digging to bring up something so old. Might as well bring the corpse back up with you since you’re already down there,” one fan tweeted.
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