{"id":200291,"date":"2026-04-17T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:37:09","slug":"nycs-first-lady-rama-duwaji-apologizes-for-teenage-posts-says-her-work-is-her-focus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200291\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s First Lady Rama Duwaji apologizes for teenage posts, says her work is her focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A month after saying his wife, Rama Duwaji, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-defends-rama-duwaji-social-media-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was a \u201cprivate person\u201d with no role in his administration<\/a>, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced renewed questions Thursday after she apologized in a recent interview for \u201charmful\u201d posts she wrote as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The questions followed a<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/in-the-studio-with-rama-duwaji\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Hyperallergic profile<\/a> of the city\u2019s first lady, published Wednesday; it was Duwaji\u2019s first interview since Mamdani took office. In it, she addressed the publication of \u201cold tweets I wrote as a teenager,\u201d saying she felt \u201ca lot of shame\u201d over language that was \u201cso harmful to others.\u201d She added that \u201cbeing 15 doesn\u2019t excuse it\u201d and said she was \u201ctruly sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/rama-duwaji-apologizes-teenage-posts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNYC\u2019s First Lady Rama Duwaji apologizes for teenage posts, says her work is her focus &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A month after saying his wife, Rama Duwaji, was a \u201cprivate person\u201d with no role in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36610,9,56,63,65,64,613,18510],"class_list":{"0":"post-200291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-mayor-mamdani","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-pm-newsletter","15":"tag-rama-duwaji"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}