JUDD Apatow still hasn’t buried the hatchet with Katherine Heigl after she brutally dissed his 2007 film, Knocked Up.

In a Vanity Fair interview in 2008, Heigl said the Judd Apatow directed comedy which she starred in was “a little sexist”.

“It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight,” Heigl said.

“It paints the men as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”

Judd Apatow and Heigl’s Knocked Up co-star, Seth Rogen, have all spoken about the harsh comments in the years since.

Here’s a brief history of their public back and forth:

2009: Apatow and Rogen were chatting to radio host Howard Stern about Heigl’s comments with the director saying the actress “probably was doing six hours of interviews and kissing everyone’s ass, and then just got tired and slipped a little bit”.

But Apatow said he did expect Heigl to apologise to him for her comments.

“[You’d think] at some point I’ll get a call saying ‘Sorry, I was tired ...’ and then the call never comes,” he said.

2016: In April Heigl told Howard Stern that she “probably should have” called Apatow and Rogen to say sorry but decided to reach out through the press instead.

“But what I did was, I did it publicly instead and tried to say, ‘Look this was not what I meant and this was an incredible experience for me and they were incredibly good to me on this movie so I did not mean to s**t on them at all’.

“I thought about writing a note,” she explained. “I feel embarrassed, I don’t want it to feel insincere on any level”.

During that interview, Heigl also revealed that she’d only seen Seth Rogen once since she made the comments back in 2008 and the exchange was awkward to say the least.

“I didn’t quite realise it was as serious as it was,” she said to Stern about seeing Rogen at a party.

“I was like, ‘Oh, you’re really mad.’ I didn’t realise it was that bad.”

2016: In August, Seth Rogen told Howard Stern that he was less than impressed by Heigl’s attempt to apologise through the press.

“When I apologise to people, generally I don’t take a public forum to do it,” the actor said.

Rogen said he was more disappointed than angry about Heigl’s comments and added that he doesn’t hold a grudge against her.

“I was having a really good time, and then when I heard afterwards that she didn’t like it, that she seemed to not like the process, and she did not like the end product either, I think when that happens — also your trust feels somewhat betrayed,” he said.

“I respect the fact that perhaps she realises that it has hurt her career, and I don’t want that to have happened to her at all because I’ve said a thousand stupid things and I really like her.”

2017: In a new interview with Vulture, Judd Apatow confirmed that he still hasn’t spoken to Heigl since she made the original comments.

“I’ve heard that she felt bad about what she said and I don’t want her to ever feel bad,” he said.

“I’d like her to love the movie as much as I do.”

And he told Vulture what effect her negative comments have had on his memories of the film.

“It’s like this: When you make a movie, you become a family,” he said.

“I felt like we all did a great job — and she did an incredible job — on Knocked Up. She couldn’t have been more fun to work with. Then to learn that she had reservations was difficult. But that’s what happened. There’s nothing you can do about it.

“We’ve all had opinions about the work we’ve done, but what’s a drag is that the negative ones separate people. Because what you really want to do is make something and then for the rest of your life be able to call the people you made it with and say, ‘Wasn’t that fun? Wasn’t that great when we did that thing?’ Now we can’t do that.”