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Lorde is in hot water. The 21-year-old New Zealand-born pop star drew ire Thursday after posting a tone-deaf photo of a waiting bath, with the caption “And iiii will always love you” – a clear reference to Whitney Houston and one of her hit songs.

Houston died in 2012 when she accidentally drowned (a result of heart disease and longtime cocaine abuse) in a bathtub in Los Angeles.

Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died in a similar manner three years later.

An hour later, the post was down, and Lorde issued her apology on Instagram. “Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote,” she wrote. “I’m so sorry for offending anyone – I hadn’t even put this together I was just excited to take a bath. I’m an idiot. Love Whitney forever and ever. Sorry again.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda has shingles, is quarantined from baby son

Lin-Manuel Miranda thought he had a migraine.

It turns out the Broadway star had shingles.

Miranda tweeted Thursday that he had been diagnosed with shingles, saying he caught it early and had been quarantined from his 8-week-old son.

The Associated Press had reported he also said on Twitter that his ophthalmologist had blurred his eyes and that he was wearing a mask during treatment.

But Miranda tweeted Friday that his mask reference and accompanying “Phantom of the Opera” GIF were a joke and his blurred eyes a part of his medical exam.

Miranda, 38, said he was staying with parents nearby. Miranda wrote and starred in the Broadway smash “Hamilton.”