WASHINGTON – CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins apologized on Sunday for past tweets in which she used homophobic language.

"When I was in college, I used ignorant language in a few tweets to my friends – it was immature, but that does not represent how I feel at all." she said in a tweet. "I regret it and I apologize for it."

Collins' apology came after the broadcast of two tweets apparently sent in 2011 on social media on Sunday. The official account of the Log Cabin Republicans, "the largest Republican organization in the country dedicated to representing LGBT conservatives and allies", was one of the groups to share the tweets first.

In a tweet, she wrote: "Prologue of Canterbury Tales, you are mean." In another, she writes that she does not know if she wants to "have a room with a lesbian".

Collins joined CNN as a White House journalist in 2017. Prior to that, she worked for the conservative Daily Caller. She went to college at the University of Alabama, reported the Washington Examiner.

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