Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes apologized for his previous comments calling the March for Our Lives organizers "pathetic" and "vile abusers of the dead."

In a video posted to his Instagram profile, Hughes said that his original statement was not intended to be an attack on the "youth of America."

"What I intended to be a statement about the hijacking by any side of the aisle of the beautiful agenda of a movement of our nation's youth came off seeming like a mean-spirited and personal attack and slight of the youth themselves," Hughes said in his apology.

A post shared by Jesse Hughes (@fatherbadass) on Mar 31, 2018 at 2:44pm PDT

"I was not attempting to impugn the youth of America and this beautiful thing that they accomplished," he added. "I truly am sorry, I did not mean to hurt anyone or cause any harm."

ADVERTISEMENT

Hughes, who was onstage with his band at the Bataclan venue in Paris at the time of the 2015 terror attacks, made the original comments last weekend in a series of since-deleted Instagram posts.





"As the survivor of a mass shooting I can tell you from firsthand experience that all of you protesting and taking days off from school insult the memory of those who were killed," he said in the original post. He also accused the Parkland shooting survivors of "exploiting the death of 16 of our fellow students for a few Facebook likes and some media attention."

Hughes made the original comments the day after the March for Our Lives, where hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in cities worldwide to protest gun violence.