Comedian and actor Whoopi Goldberg landed in hot water over comments she made on a TV show.
Goldberg apologised for false comments she made about the Holocaust, the genocide before and during the Second World War in which an estimated six million people were murdered.
She has now been suspended from The View for two weeks for the comments she made.
In her apology, she said: "Yesterday on our show, I misspoke. I tweeted about it last night but I want you to hear it from me directly.
"I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. I understand why now, and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful, and it helped me understand some different things."
So what did she say and why were her comments a problem?
What did Whoopi Goldberg say about the Holocaust?
On the show, Goldberg falsely stated that the Holocaust was "not about race".
The View was taking part in a discussion in reaction to the banning of the book Maus in Tennessee.
She said: "The Holocaust isn't about race. It is not about race. It is about man's inhumanity to man.
"These are two white groups of people. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley, let's talk about it for what it is. It is about how people treat each other. It is a problem, it doesn't matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italian, everybody eats each other."
She also said of the book: "Well, this is white people doing it to white people. So, this is y'all go fight amongst yourselves."
Why were Whoopi Goldberg's comments controversial?
Simply, the comments were problematic as they stated that the Holocaust was not about race, when it was.
Comedian and author of the book Jews Don't Count David Baddiel explained on ITV's Good Morning Britain why there are "issues" with what Goldberg said.
"I am a fan of Whoopi Goldberg, but there are issues with what she is saying and it does reveal an awful lot about the confusions people have around antisemitism," he said.
"One common misconception is that antisemitism is about criticism of a certain religion and is therefore acceptable."
Baddiel continued: "I am an atheist and the Gestapo would have shot me tomorrow. My great uncle Arno, who died in the Warsaw ghetto, was not an observant Jew.
"The Nazis were not interested in faith, they were interested in racial purity.
"This was an ethnic group being marked out to be destroyed."
What is Maus?
A Tennessee school has pulled the graphic novel Maus, a Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the experiences of people inside Nazi concentration camps, from classrooms. The book, by the American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, also depicts Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats, and talks about his mother's suicide.
The school banned the book on the pretence of "rough, objectionable language" and drawings of naked women. The ban drew outrage and Maus has since hit the best-seller lists.
CEO of free speech group Index on Censorship, Ruth Smeeth, said: "Not only is it beyond my comprehension for a school board to believe it is appropriate to ban educational books but in this instance, it is beyond parody.
"Maus was written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. It is the story of his parent’s experiences during the Holocaust. As a graphic novel it helps educate a new generation about the horrors of the Shoah.
"The human cost. You cannot tell the story of the Holocaust without challenging imagery and graphic depictions. The associated language is of course coarse."
