An email was printed in two British publications on Sunday, September 21, in which Ferguson wrote to Epstein, "You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family." It was written after the duchess gave an interview claiming to have cut ties with the notorious pedophile. She called their friendship a "gigantic error of judgment," adding, "What he did was wrong and for which he was rightly jailed." "I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf. "Whenever I can, I will repay the money and have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again," the duchess promised.