Suzanne Somers Offers Apology to Patrick Swayze’s Family

Suzanne Somers sends her condolences to the family of the late Patrick Swayze and issues an apology for a comment she gave that was made public, she says, without her knowledge.

"In a casual conversation at a private party (with someone who never identified himself as a reporter) at the Toronto Film Festival last week, I was asked about this beloved actor. It was never my intention to make an official statement about his passing," Somers wrote on her blog, referring to a comment she made about Swayze's cancer treatments.

Somers reportedly talked about Swayze to a Toronto-based columnist of the National Post, saying, "They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him. ... Why couldn't they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body? I hate to be this controversial. I'm a singer-dancer-comedienne. But we have an epidemic going on, and I have to say it."