Hugh Laurie Apologizes for ‘Drunk’ Post Attacking ‘House’ Critic

Joseph Okpako / WireImageHugh Laurie has apologized for his viral takedown of a journalist who dared criticize House—revealing he was “very slightly drunk” when he fired off the testy reply. The British actor, best known for playing the sardonic Dr. Gregory House across eight seasons on Fox, initially lit up social media with a withering response to freelance journalist Janet Murray, who had posted a spot-on breakdown of the show’s reliable formula. By Murray’s reckoning, every episode followed the same arc: mysterious illness, wrong diagnosis, near death, wrong diagnosis again, near firing, another near death—then a last-minute epiphany that saves both the patient and House’s job. “Eight seasons of this?” she concluded. The post racked up over two million views.Read more at The Daily Beast.