Emmy Winner Viola Davis attacked over her speech by soap actress who then apologised after backlash.

General Hospital actress Nancy Lee Grahn seemed to express dissatisfaction with the How to Get Away With Murder star calling for more diversity in Hollywood on Sunday night.

On Twitter, Grahn wrote, "I wish I loved #ViolaDavis Speech, but I thought she should have let @shondarhimes write it. #Emmys."

In a follow-up reply to someone who noted that Shonda Rhimes tweeted out about loving Davis' speech, Grahn wrote, "I think she's the bees knees but she's elite of TV performers. Brilliant as she is. She has never been discriminated against."

Suggesting that Davis, as a black woman in Hollywood, hasn't faced discrimination merely because of what she accomplished was met with a ton of backlash from the Emmy winner's supporters. And, though her initial tweets still remain, Grahn continued to backpedal and apologize for her remarks. In one tweet, Grahn suggested that actors are irrelevant to fixing true racial injustice, writing,
"Viola Davis winning lead actress Emmy's historic. My upset is acting awards dont fix racial injustice. As an actor I see how irrelevant we are."