She said: "This was and is a deeply upsetting incident for everyone.
"This is a deeply upsetting incident involving an innocent and helpless victim who has severe learning difficulties".
Nica Burns, chief executive of Nimax Theatres which owns the Apollo, said it had been "a deeply upsetting incident for everyone".
When he heard of the disappearance last week, the defence secretary, Liam Fox, ordered an urgent review to shed some light on "a deeply upsetting case".
This is a deeply upsetting issue which I know has horrified people across the BBC, and our thoughts and sympathies are and must be with the women affected.
Levi, 68, told the court this public harassment had a deeply upsetting impact on him and his 69-year-old wife, Carole.
I know we had our differences after my review of Ghostbusters but I wish her all the best at what must be a deeply upsetting time".
In what police said was a "deeply upsetting incident," 43-year-old Donna Stringer, who has learning difficulties and requires a wheelchair, was left in critical condition in hospital.
About 50 people who lost loved ones in the Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack reportedly told a private meeting called by Germany's outgoing president, Joachim Gauck, and the interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, they felt abandoned at a deeply upsetting time.
It is reminiscent of Ken Loach's Bread and Roses (2000) in which Adrien Brody played a union campaigner who tours around buildings persuading terrified cleaning workers to join a union: he is (at least, at first) a deeply upsetting presence.
Joe Williams, 53, spent 16 years in the Army and the Navy, including a deeply upsetting assignment in the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the dead from the gulf war were taken for autopsies.
