"Recently things have been going crazy over a joke I made. A joke without realising it would have such an impact and offend so many people. I would like to state that I never meant to offend anyone. I'm sorry if that was the case."

OK, right there. All these racism apologies classically start with an "I never meant to..." like the garbage disaster that was that Fox News Man-On-The-Street segment in Chinatown that basically let professional fool Jesse Watters spew an impressive amount of racist Asian stereotypes for a five minute stretch. It's the "sorry if you were offended" and not the "sorry I did an offensive thing" framing that kills me every time. You never meant to offend anyone. Obviously, sure. That you're even writing this means that it was indeed the case. So skip the preamble and own up. You did a shit thing whether you knew you were doing a shit thing or not, so oops on you for not knowing better. Know better.

"I am of Italian descent and continuously make jokes about myself too."

Wow, what a completely irrelevant statement! Also, you have implicitly revealed your own ignorance surrounding racism, which no one is surprised at obviously, but this is a classic foot sandwich and you just took a big ol' chomp. As a reminder, racism — this type especially— relies on the systemic color-blind belief of "I don't see color" and all the social grudges of denying that race matters as a way to side-step having to recognize that race and racial appearance really do fucking matter. To say that you don't see color is to be complicit with a system that prefers to gloss over racial discrimination because it makes you uncomfortable to confront your own discriminations. Italians a.k.a. westerners a.k.a. white folk, essentially, are not a marginalized party in global terms and it's just bizarre to even imply that they are, especially in this context because... you make fun of white people too so that makes it OK to make fun of Asian people??

"I have many friends of different origin and culture and appreciate these people very much."

Oh she did NOT go with the "I have non-white friends so I'm not racist" angle. She didn't. Please. This is embarrassing. Stop, please.