Fired CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez broke his silence Friday in his first live TV interview on Good Morning America, saying "It's tough, I screwed up", when he made derogatory remarks about The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

Sanchez - sitting down with GMA host George Stephanopoulos - blamed his inflammatory comments on exhaustion. "I was tired... I was working 14 hour days for two and a half months. I was exhausted." He then added, "My daughter had a softball game that I desperately wanted to go to and I was a little impatient... and I said some thing that I shouldn't have said... they were wrong... not only were they wrong, they were offensive."

Sanchez then told Stephanopoulos, "First of all that is not what I meant... Second of all, I apologize and it was wrong for me to be so careless and so inartful," Sanchez added. "But it happened and I can't take it back and, you know what, now I have to stand up and be responsible."

As Breaking Celebrity News has previously reported, during his Sirius XM radio interview last week, Sanchez called Stewart a "bigot", and mocked the notion that Jews were an oppressed minority, implying they run CNN.

On GMA Friday, Sanchez said that minorities are underrepresented on prime-time news programs.

"I was feeling a little bit put out. And I was feeling a little sensitive. And I was looking at the landscape and I was looking and I was seeing little diversity and I externalized the problem and I put it on Jon Stewart's shoulders, and I was wrong to do that," Sanchez said.

Sanchez said he called Stewart on Monday to personally apologize and asked the comedian 'Why do you always pick on me?'