Joy Reid claimed Saturday she "genuinely" does not believe she wrote the homophobic comments recently found on her old and now-defunct personal blog, which has become an escalating controversy for the MSNBC host.

But on her show Saturday morning, Reid did offer an apology for past tweets and other posts she wrote which were seen as offensive by members of the LGBT community.

“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me,” Reid said during the opening monologue of "AM Joy." “But I can definitely understand based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past why some people don’t believe me."



The liberal commentator has faced backlash in response to homophobic slurs she allegedly made on a personal blog resurfaced on Twitter last week. Reid initially claimed her blog was hacked and hired a cybersecurity expert to investigate.

On Saturday, Reid acknowledged these "experts" have not been able to find evidence of tampering. "The reality is they have not been able to prove it," she said.

Along with her blog posts, Twitter users dredged up old tweets of Reid’s which were written with similar rhetoric. Some of them mocked conservative firebrand Ann Coulter using anti-transgender language, calling her a “shim” and suggesting she’s a drag queen. Reid apologized for these tweets Saturday.



Or if you prefer, some transphobic tweets. pic.twitter.com/Cpj9bs5Z5U — Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) April 25, 2018

“I want to apologize to the trans community and to Ann. Those tweets were wrong and horrible,” she admitted Saturday.

Amid the controversy, NBC has elected not to take Reid off the air. However, she was suspended by the Daily Beast, where she had a semi-regular column.