While private apologies for serious offenses like cheating are likely preferred by the party done wrong in a relationship, many celebrity men go the public apology route when they’ve been caught dogging out their wife and kids. (Whether people want to admit it or not, such disrespect in a marriage that includes children compromises their future and doesn’t set a good example of what marriage should be for them.)

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Things get so bad, their fans feel such disappointment and the desperation to mend their relationships becomes so strong that they decide to publicly say, “My bad.” Kevin Hart issued a public apology to his wife Eniko and his kids over the weekend, but he’s far from the first to do so. See a few other famous men who tried to clean up their messes by taking their apologies to the public.