Watson‘s waffling around this is an absolute masterclass of a kind of witless, vacuous therapy-speak that absolutely dements me.
Someone who had really thought things through and had had a proper reconsideration of their views would say something like: “I thought x, I said y, it had z effect. I’ve since come to realise that in fact, my understanding of x was wrong, so I shouldn’t have said y, and I would like to apologise to the people that it had z effect on”. Or “I know that when I said <thing>, it upset people. I’m sorry. I think the people who pointed out how perfectly reasonable it is to think <opposite of thing> are right. I have people who think<opposite of thing> in my life and I love them“.
Not this half witted meandering through cliches and phrases that sound like they mean something, but actually don’t.
“'I really don't believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have, mean that I can't and don't treasure Jo and the person that I, that I had personal experiences with.
'I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don't get to keep and cherish to come back to our earlier thing. Like I just don't think these things are either or”
This is the kind of thing that only a stupid person (or someone who has made themselves stupid trying to believe silly things) thinks sounds smart. It’s gibberish. She must be desperate for work. You could cobble together a hundred Emmas and not make one Jo’s worth of smarts, talent, charisma and humanity.