Rep. Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican activist from Colorado, apologized Friday night for her behavior during a recent performance of the family musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver, after surveillance video revealed she was vaping and behaving disruptively at the theater.

Ms Boebert, 36, had previously denied reports she had vaped. A pregnant woman sitting behind her asked her to stop before being kicked out for ‘disturbing the show’ according to the Denver Post.

“These past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I am truly sorry for the unwanted attention my Sunday evening in Denver brought to the community,” Ms. Boebert said in a statement Friday evening. “While none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or cause harm, the reality is that they did and I regret that.”

Ms Boebert, who can be seen on the video touching and continuing her date as she sat in the middle of a crowded theater, blamed her behavior on what she called her “public and difficult divorce and said, “I simply failed. of my values ​​on Sunday.

Ms. Boebert, a mother of four boys who likes to show photos of her new grandchild to her colleagues in Congress, said she “really didn’t remember vaping that evening” when she asked his campaign to issue a statement denying having done so. She said she would have to work hard to regain the trust of voters in her constituency.

That could pose a tall order for Ms. Boebert, who was re-elected in 2022 by just 546 votes.

If her too-tight-for-comfortable reelection campaign was a message that Colorado voters didn’t like her disruptive policies, she doesn’t appear to have received it. Since January, she has often acted in ways that many Republicans view as detrimental to maintaining control of the House in 2024 and her seat.

In June, Ms. Boebert attempted to force a vote on articles of impeachment against President Biden, asserting that his immigration policy constituted serious crimes and misdemeanors. Some of his colleagues called the move “crazy,” and it was ultimately sent back to committees for further study.

Ms. Boebert distinguished herself during the presidential race in January as one of the most committed holdouts against Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, seizing the moment for maximum exposure on Fox News. In the House, she cultivated an abrasive public persona, sometimes heckling fellow Democrats in the halls of the Capitol and largely ignoring questions from reporters, except to loudly proclaim at times, “I love President Trump!”

This behavior has also earned a cult following on the right. Ms. Boebert, who often wears five-inch Lucite heels and body-hugging dresses, has a national base of fans who enjoy her disruptive antics and extreme rhetoric.

In the House, Ms. Boebert denounced drag shows aimed at children and claimed that the left was “grooming” children by exposing them to “obscene content.”