I envision any real interview going like this

NP: I want to apologize...

Interviewer: What are you apologizing for, exactly?

NP: For harming this woman's life.

Interviewer: In what way did you do that?

NP: Well, I myself didn't rape her, and I was acquitted, but my best good buddy Bubba Celestin took advantage of her.

Interviewer: The guy you co-wrote this movie with?

NP: Yeah, him.

Etc.

Any decent interviewer would eventually drill down to him not admitting to rape, even though it looks like rape. He can't talk his way around that basic logic, or sort of fake-apologize, or apologize for nothing, so to speak.