Mary Steenburgen expressed her support for her husband of 31 years, Ted Danson, after he issued a heartfelt apology for wearing blackface to roast his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg at the Friar’s Club in 1993. Steenburgen appeared on Obsessed: The Podcast, where she shared her reaction to Danson’s conversation with comedian W. Kamau Bell. Ted Danson and his wife, Mary Steenburgen. Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images“Over the years, because I have to throw Mary into this because it affects Mary, that I’m saying this, Mary was sweet and gentle with me, but early on, just couldn’t understand,” Danson explained. “She had done all this work, civil rights work, and this and that, and she couldn’t understand it.