May I request the producer to pass along a message to the interview subjects: What you did was not a terrible thing.

I hope you take up things like that more often, certainly more than three times in your life. You have inspired me to try to do likewise.

I hope the people who yelled at you have learned "never to do that again." They may console themselves, that although what they did was was terrible, something like that does happen at least once, or maybe even three times, in every life.