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Zooey Deschanel wrote an open letter to the Los Angeles Times journalist who called the actress a “snobby cow” in her Sunday op-ed piece.  According to Us Magazine, Pat Morrison wrote that Deschanel told the writer’s friend at Saturday’s BAFTA event that she didn’t want the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to see “the worst part of L.A.,” referring to the city’s downtown area.  Irate at the alleged hearsay, Deschanel wrote to the Morrison on HelloGiggles.com.

Let me be clear: the quote from USA TODAY that you used as the foundation of your piece was taken completely out of context. I NEVER said that Downtown LA was “the worst of LA”. I did make a reference to a parking lot adjacent to the theater that had a lot of trash in it in an attempt to be humorous. I simply said, “It’s funny they brought royalty here, there is a parking lot with trash around the corner.” It wasn’t an opinion. It was true. There was indeed a parking lot with trash around the corner. I thought that the juxtaposition of British Royalty and trash was amusing in a high-brow + low brow sort of way, but I never said that I, personally, didn’t like downtown, the Royals, or even trash.

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Deschanel, a native Los Angeleno, took great offense to Morrison’s snide inquiry as to whether there are “homeless people there near your Westside home? Or does that not count, because they’re on the beach, not the sidewalks?”  Deschanel, who attended the premiere of Winnie The Pooh at Walt Disney Studios Sunday in Burbank, clarified that she didn’t live on the Westside and confirmed that she does, in fact, love downtown L.A.

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