Jason Alexander donates $15,000 after apology to Stodden

Actor Jason Alexander has donated $15,000 to a nonprofit organization after publicly apologizing to media personality Courtney Stodden for his role in a 2012 comedy sketch that she has described as inappropriate and harmful. The donation to Unchained At Last, a group dedicated to ending child and forced marriage, follows Stodden's public call for accountability and action.

The incident centers on a parody sketch titled "The Donny Clay Show," released on the website Funny or Die in 2012. In the video, Alexander, then 52, portrayed a life coach and performed a bit where he rubbed a cell phone against the chest of Stodden, who was 17 years old at the time and wearing a bikini. Stodden has stated that during the sketch, Alexander joked that there was no signal in her head but plenty in her chest, and later remarked that when she turned 18 he would like to "take me behind the couch and have his way with me."

Stodden addressed the resurfaced clip in an Instagram post earlier this week, sharing a photo from the shoot. "I was 17 years old in this photo," she wrote. "The older I get, the more impossible this is to understand." She elaborated that as a minor, she lacked the legal power to...