Recently, Sarah Silverman came under fire for a video she released discussing her experiences with the wage gap, which included an anecdote about once getting paid less money for a set at the New York Comedy Club than her friend Todd Barry, despite having identical slots.

Former club owner Al Martin, meanwhile, lashed back, saying that Silverman got paid less not because she was a woman, but because she wasn’t booked to perform that night.

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“I did not pay you less cause of gender …..I paid you less because Todd Barry was booked and you weren’t,” wrote Martin on the Facebook page for the Broadway Comedy Club, which he currently owns. “It was a GUEST SPOT, so I gave you some car fare, which actually is more than almost any club would have given for a GUEST Spot…Funny how in your attempt to become a super hero with a noble cause, you forgot that little fact.”

Now, Silverman has released a statement exclusively to Salon, apologizing for mentioning Martin by name over what was “HARDLY an example of the wage gap,” and asking that “maniacs” avoid “using this [example as] a chit against women's issues.” Of course, the wage gap is a real and pervasive issue that affects women across all industries -- even if Silverman's story was a flawed example of it -- and her statement suggests that this sort of quibbling back and forth about one anecdote risks diluting the important message underneath. Here's her full statement: