Michael Rapaport is defending himself after all the backlash surrounding his roundtable confrontation with Colton Underwood on this season of The Traitors! In case you missed it, the 55-year-old comedian got banished from the show after the cast slammed him for trying to use The Bachelor alum's coming out struggles against him. While accusing Colton of being a Traitor, Michael argued that "nobody in this room would be better at holding a secret than you." Related: Karamo Brown Breaks Silence Amid Queer Eye Drama! Several cast members, including Colton, took the comment as the Prison Break actor claiming he would make a good liar because he didn't come out as gay later in life. Michael insisted it had "nothing to do" with the reality star's sexuality. However, it was too late by that point. No one believed him, and they voted him off the series. Michael maintains that he never intended to offend anyone, especially Colton. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly about the drama on Tuesday, he explained: "I thought that he was a Traitor, and I was riffing. I was going at him because he was going at me, and I felt defensive and I was doing my best to deflect all of the attention, which had been on me the previous four roundtables. Obviously, I didn't get voted out [before this], but I was getting votes. And I was annoyed that he had come at me earlier in the evening at the kitchen table." Michael argued that words like "lying" and "secrets" are thrown around throughout the game, and he would've used the same toward anyone else: "I was just flowing, I was just talking. I was talking about him being conniving, cowardly and commiserating. Those words are thrown around a lot during this game: lying, secrets, dishonest, deceitful, betrayal. And that was just one of the words I used, and I would've used it towards anybody that I felt was coming at me, but I truly felt that he was a Traitor in that moment. I was dead set that he was a Traitor." Come on! Michael had to know people would interpret what he said that way! When the Friends alum learned the cast thought his comment was a dig at Colton's sexuality, he said he "felt completely misunderstood" and "gaslit" at that moment: "I felt that they didn't understand what I was saying. And I think that if the conversation had stuck to just me and Colton, it wouldn't have gotten to the level that it got to, because I feel like I acknowledged it and apologized right there. But then when Johnny, Kristen, Natalie, and Yam Yam started adding on, that got the other people involved. I regret that it went to that point." Michael noted he liked Colton, but he honestly thought he was a Traitor: "I like Colton. I actually had a great time with him on the set. I probably had the most intimate and personal conversations with him up until that moment. But I did think he was a Traitor. Just things got a little bit out of hand." Ultimately, Michael regrets how everything went down. Most importantly, he feels bad for hurting Colton and others on the show with his words: "I do regret that it hurt his feelings. I do regret that it offended him. It obviously did offend him and some other people at the table, and it caused and brought negative attention to his world and his young family. It obviously brought negative attention to my life. It brought negative attention to the show, and it's not what my intention was. And I wish I had used different words. I wish it never happened." Hopefully, Michael learned some sort of lesson from all of this! At least to think before he speaks! The Atypical alum went on to say he believes Colton "misunderstood" him but also acknowledges he "had a right to misunderstand me." He shared that they've since hashed things out and are on good terms: "I wish I would've been a little bit more chill and a little bit more careful with the words I was using, but it happened. I spoke to him as soon as I could after production and we had a very, very, very good, grown-up conversation, and it was very funny. We laughed and we moved on. I actually heard from him when the episode dropped Thursday too. He reached out to me." Colton also confirmed with the outlet that Michael apologized, saying he "didn't mean" to make a dig about his sexuality. The former football player added that he isn't "holding a grudge" against him. So, it sounds like they're both moving on from the drama! Whether fans will, we'll see! Thoughts, Perezcious readers? Let us know in the comments! To learn more about advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community, check out https://www.glaad.org/. [Image via The Traitors/Peacock] The post <i>The Traitors</i> Star Michael Rapaport Felt 'Completely Misunderstood' & 'Gaslit' Over Comment He Made About Colton Underwood's Sexuality! appeared first on Perez Hilton.