Luis Silva is sorry and embarrassed.

And, while not using it as an excuse, he’s also grief-stricken.

Toronto FC’s rookie midfielder spoke publicly for the first time Monday about his arrest, along with teammates Miguel Aceval and Nick Soolsma, for public intoxication after a brawl outside a nightclub in Houston last week.

“It was just a stupid mistake I made,” the 23-year-old Californian told the Star in an interview. “I shouldn’t have been there.

“And, for my part, that will never happen again.”

While reluctant to get into details about the incident at about 2:45 a.m. on June 18, Silva said he has addressed it with the entire team.

“I apologized,” he said. “I told them I was really sorry for my actions.”

Silva, Toronto’s first pick, fourth overall, in January’s Major League Soccer SuperDraft, said his teammates and club staff have been “very supportive.”

Silva gave a glimpse into his mindset leading up to the incident, which served as the latest embarrassment for a club mired in last place in MLS.

On the morning of a game in Kansas City, Silva got word from his family that his father, Saul Silva Segui, 52, had died in Los Angeles after never regaining consciousness following a stroke about two weeks earlier.

Having just spent about 10 days at his father’s bedside and comforting his mother and kid sister, Silva decided to stay with the team to complete the two-game road trip, which was to wrap up last Wednesday night in Houston.

Silva was then going to travel to California for his father’s viewing before the body was sent to Mexico for burial, according his grandfather’s wishes.

In Houston with no curfew because it was an off-day, Silva went out.

“The bad thing was that it was Father’s Day on Sunday and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe this just happened,’” he said. “Obviously, I just made a stupid mistake. I regret it. I should have never done it.

“But, we learn from our mistakes.”

Police say Aceval, 29, and Soolsma, 24, were in a fight, though it’s not known with whom or why. A drunken Silva was arrested, after a short foot chase, for being “really angry” over Aceval’s arrest and “pretty belligerent.”

All three are charged with Class C misdemeanours. Their court date is set for Aug. 2.

Aceval and Soolsma were sent back to Toronto. Silva went to California, attending his father’s viewing Thursday and returning overnight to Toronto.

An MLS-TFC-players’ union investigation continues into the incident.

Aceval and Soolsma did not suit up for Saturday’s game against the New England Revolution at BMO Field or the reserve game that followed. Silva came on as a second-half substitute to a large ovation in the MLS game and started the reserve match. All three trained with the team on Monday.

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“There’s nobody suspended,” said head coach Paul Mariner, noting all three are eligible to play in a Wednesday match in Montreal. “It’s my decision.”

Silva, who lauds Mariner for “taking a bullet for me” for putting him into Saturday’s home game despite the controversy, said he’s convinced that playing the game both he and his dad loved will help ease his grief.

“It’s going to take a while, losing my father,” said Silva, who has written his father’s monogram — S.S.S. — on his soccer boots in tribute. “But I made a promise that every game is going to be for him. I’ll make him proud.”