Following the media response, both deleted the tweets and issued apologies. Collins wrote: “I’m sorry about the Blue Ivy tweet — bad joke, and black girls in particular deserve better.” Lucca responded in a series of tweets Wednesday and Thursday. “Sorry I was cleaning my apartment while this blew up…children of famous ought to be off limits, but time and again they haven’t been. So I said something petty and have been called ugly, old, and a racist.”