I think it made everybody in the audience and onstage, and Ken Jennings too, a little uncomfortable," contestant Heather Ryan said.

Contestant Heather Ryan shared her thoughts about a controversial clue that had host Ken Jennings apologizing to her on air.

The Inside Jeopardy! podcast addressed the controversial clue from Jeopardy!'s October 28 game. Last week, four-day champion Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas competed against Ian Taylor,

Jeopardy!' host Ken Jennings apologizes to a contestant after the show used the famous Dorothy Parker quote about 'girls who wear glasses' as a recent clue.

The faux pas wasn’t lost on viewers, who took to social media platforms to slam the show for what some considered sexist.

Jeopardy! producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss has addressed that hot-button “Girls Who Wear Glasses” clue from last week, which involved a swift apology from Ken Jennings to a female contestant, backlash from fans, and a particularly prolonged pile-on from the press.

"Jeopardy!" contestant Heather Ryan is speaking out after she experienced an awkward encounter on the beloved game show. Ryan, a health program director from Binghamton, New York, admitted the "sexist" clue that caused quite the buzz on "Jeopardy!

Even Jeopardy host Ken Jennings noted that the rhyming question was “a little problematic” after it "made everybody in the audience and on stage a little uncomfortable"