Maybe Empire wasn’t so bad after all?

A few weeks after Lee Daniels slammed his time on the hit Fox series — “Horrible. Absolutely the worst experience. Horrible!” he told The Film Stage — the show’s co-creator has walked back those comments by claiming “that’s not true” when asked if he ever said it in the first place.

During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live to promote his Netflix film The Deliverance, Daniels was asked about his sharp-tongued comments, which made headlines in early September. “I read that you called Empire the worst experience. Is that true?” host Andy Cohen asked.

“That’s so not true,” Daniels replied in curious turn of events considering the article is published as a Q&a format with no corrections or clarifications. “What I meant was the worst experience because all of my films have been independently financed, it was the...