You read the original apology and on paper it looks fine for someone trying to apologize being a young dickhead without admitting guilt. He was trying to show that he's grown since then and was a new man; but it could come off insensitive without making the focus primarily on the woman who felt/was violated.

He couldda weathered that storm...


...then the court docs leaked that make him look callous during the whole situation on top of it looks like he was involved with getting her harassed out of campus.

Doesn't mean he raped her; hell if he didn't it might have even made him MORE empowered to spread the rumors and have his people go at her. It was ruthlessly shitty though. So it was more important to make mention of her and give at least a non-apology because...


...When her family started giving interviews and it was found out that she killed herself and they consider the alleged rape as the turning point...it was career over.

After that during the noise he finally put up a real apology that acknowledged the woman but it was too late.