Here's why Pia Wurtzbach apologized to her fans on Twitter

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<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:62.5% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BaOSbRAgTKM/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Pia Wurtzbach | Miss Universe (@piawurtzbach)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-10-14T09:22:52+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Oct 14, 2017 at 2:22am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>MANILA – “I’m sorry po. I don’t mean to be misunderstood po and I don’t mean to offend anyone.”</p><p>This is what Miss Universe 2015 said in a Twitter post on Monday.</p><p>This prompted many to ask: “Why is she apologizing?”</p><p>Wurtzbach, it turns out, is addressing some fans who claimed that they have been blocked after making political statements on the beauty queen’s Twitter page.</p><p>The said fans have been pushing Wurtzbach to make a stand on the extra-judicial killings under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.</p><p>They are hoping that the former Miss Universe titleholder will use her massive social media following to call out the government to stop the killings.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/05/17/ph-bishops-lead-thousands-in-call-to-end-killings">READ: PH bishops lead thousands in call to end killings</a></li></ul><p>Others continued to express their sentiments by commenting on Wurtzbach’s recent congratulatory message to Filipina beauty queens who were victorious in their respective pageants.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Everyday din may EJK. When are you going to speak up? Oh right, I forgot. <a href="https://t.co/jbkpe9AKh8">pic.twitter.com/jbkpe9AKh8</a></p>— Kukay (@sarcasticookie) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarcasticookie/status/927698646639943682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="tl">Akala ko ba you would influence the youth? Isang sentence lang Pia. Isang sentence para sa mga biktima.</p>— Erwin (@erwinmlte) <a href="https://twitter.com/erwinmlte/status/927738175212077056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">everyday rin may napapatay na pilipino at this age, and yet at the end of the day you only care for a crown.</p>— January (@Januaryabcd) <a href="https://twitter.com/Januaryabcd/status/927573015096737793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Responding to her bashers, Wurtzbach apologized, saying that she did not mean to be misunderstood.</p><p>She also stressed that she is “pro-life.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I&#x27;m sorry po. I don&#x27;t mean to be misunderstood po and I don&#x27;t mean to offend anyone. I am very much pro life.❤️ 😌🙏Salamat po mga kababayan❤️</p>— Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (@PiaWurtzbach) <a href="https://twitter.com/PiaWurtzbach/status/927776023743041536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div>

<p>“I’m sorry po. I don’t mean to be misunderstood po and I don’t mean to offend anyone.”</p>

“I’m sorry po. I don’t mean to be misunderstood po and I don’t mean to offend anyone.”