The young man who has helped raise over one million dollars for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital thanks to his need beer sign prior to the Iowa-Iowa State game, apologized for what he termed hurtful and embarrassing tweets six years ago.

Carson King’s old tweets came to light via the Des Moines Register who published a feature story on King. The newspaper is taking heat of its own for publishing the tweets, but King noted that the Register has been nothing but kind to me in all of their coverage.

As a result of that coverage, Anheuser-Busch announced it will no longer have an association with King, but will honor its commitment to donate $350,00o to the hospital.