First, a refresher on That Instagram Thing: In late August, Linton posted a pic of herself accompanying her husband on a work trip and, as so many moneyed fashionistas do, tagged the designers of the clothes she sported, name-dropping the pricey likes of Hermes and Tom Ford. When commenters called her out, she responded to one woman with a condescending rant about her husband’s wealth.

Linton deleted it all and apologized, but the screen grabs aren’t the only reason we’re reliving it — the Scottish actress/writer is rehashing it herself in the most recent issue of Washington Life magazine devoted to the Washington high-society set’s season of balls and galas. As described by Washington Life editor Virginia Coyne, the original photo shoot to accompany the long-planned cover story and interview was canceled, because it was set for just after the Instagram controversy. But Linton agreed to reschedule and used the interview to don a couture version of a hair shirt.

“I one hundred percent embrace the comments of my critics and I concede wholeheartedly that the post was boastful and materialistic and my response was extremely thoughtless,” she told Coyne. “I should have known better than to be so insensitive.”

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The interview is both a public apology and an attempt to pivot on a designer stiletto, a feat made slightly more difficult by her previous flaunting of her wealth, which is mostly courtesy of her husband, a former Goldman Sachs exec (she shared a tour of her many-carated jewelry box with Town & Country magazine and boasted of her custom Ines Di Santo wedding gown). But still, she’s trying. Albeit in more Ines Di Santo frocks.