Kiefer Sutherland has publicly apologized to designer Jack McCollough about the now infamous head-butting incident. As anyone who has turned on a television, computer or walked past a newsstand in the past month knows, Kiefer got a little randy at an after party for the Met Costume Institute Gala and injured fashion designer Jack McCollough over some sort of undisclosed altercation involving Brooke Shields.

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Kiefer released a rather bland statement stating:

“I am sorry about what happened that night and sincerely regret that Mr. McCollough was injured,” the action star stated contritely. The designer responded, “I appreciate Mr. Sutherland’s statement and wish him well.”

While this will surely result in the assault charges being dropped, The New York Daily News is reporting that Sutherland was forced to publicly apologize in order to keep his role in the upcoming movie Twelve.

A snitch on the set of Sutherland’s flick “Twelve” told us that the film’s director, Joel Schumacher, was not happy with the negative press that followed his star’s headline-grabbing head-butting incident after the Met’s Costume Institute Gala on May 5. “For the entire week following [the incident], Kiefer’s drama was the white elephant in the room,” our source reports. “Joel did not want to talk about it and instructed his cast not to mention anything around him or to the press.”

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