james later Social media dust-up addressedis telling new York Times“I have done nothing wrong at any stage.”
“I feel zen about the whole thing. Because I think it’s so silly,” he continued. “I think it’s down to all of us.”
He elaborated on the situation during the October 24 episode the late late show, he acted accepting during his latest visit to Balthazar because his wife, julia carey, she had found a dish she was allergic to. “Since her food came wrong on the table for the third time, in the heat of the moment, I made a sarcastic, rude comment about cooking it myself,” she confessed. “And it is a remark I deeply regret.”
Acknowledging the “difficulties of being a server”, James said, “Since I didn’t yell or scream or get up from my seat, I didn’t name anyone or use abusive language, I’m walking away thinking That I didn’t do anything wrong. But the fact is that I did. I made a rude comment and it was wrong. It was an unnecessary comment. It was disrespectful to the server.”
I! News has reached out to reps for Geri and James for comment but did not receive a response.