During the Six Nations Tournament, the English pillar was talked about for tapping the genitals of Welsh captain Alu Wyn Jones. A gesture that had earned him 10 weeks of suspension, sanction finally canceled due to stopped competitions. Four months later, Joe Marler publicly apologized for his gesture at the Virtual Rugby Show. "I was having fun, but I was wrong. What I did was inappropriate and wrong. The people who compared this gesture to a sexual assault in the workplace shocked me first. But I stopped for a second and tried to understand why they were made to feel this. They have every right to think that and I respect it. However, I did not sexually assault anyone in the workplace. I wanted to joke with someone who has known me for several years. Okay, that was such a bad idea. I had a brain failure, "repented the pillar of the Harlequins and the XV of England
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