By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Repentant comedian, Tracy Morgan is continuing in his attempt to make amends for his shocking homophobic rant on Friday during a comedy routine in Nashville, TN.

The 30 Rock star spoke with GLAAD on Monday to announce several steps he will be taking to redeem himself, and also confessed that he was a victim of bullying himself as a child.

"I know how bad bullying can hurt,” Morgan said. “I was bullied when I was a kid. I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it. I never want to use my comedy to hurt anyone. My family knew what it was like to feel different. My brother was disabled and I lost my father to AIDS in 1987.

“My dad wasn't gay but I also learned about homophobia then because of how people treated people who were sick with that. Parents should support and love their kids no matter what. Gay people deserve the same right to be happy in this country as everyone else.

“Our laws should support that. I hope that my fans gay, straight, whatever forgive and I hope my family forgives me for this."

Morgan announced that he will be meeting this week with LGBT teens who were shunned or left homeless by their parents as well as parents who lost their children to anti-LGBT hate crimes.

Then next week Morgan will return to Tennessee with GLAAD and hip hop mogul, Russell Simmons, to meet with those offended by his remarks and make a public statement about how he supports LGBT people.

Simmons, a longtime friend of Tracy’s to