Dr. Dre insists he's a changed man.

With outrage bubbling over the omission of his history of violence against women in his blockbuster hit "Straight Outta Compton," Dre apparently felt the need to address the issue.

"Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life," he said in a statement released to the New York Times. He later added, "However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. I've been married for 19 years and every day I'm working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. I'm doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again."

The 50-year-old executive producer of the critically-acclaimed N.W.A. biopic went on to offer a formal apology to all the "women I've hurt," adding "I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives."

Since the film's widely successful release, hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes and Dre's ex-fiancée Michel'le have stood at the forefront of the protest against him. Both women have claimed they were assaulted by Dre and in a recent essay for Gawker Barnes classified the movie's omission of those events and times as "revisionist history."

Barnes, who alleges she was attacked over a segment she aired on her TV show, where Ice Cube verbally attacked his then ex-group members, also reflected, "What should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theater, and the movie's time-line skipped by my attack without a glance, I was like, 'Uhhh, what happened?'"

Forbes magazine reports "Straight Outta Compton" cashed in at the box office with earnings of $56 million over its opening weekend, and there are rumors Hollywood execs are already planning followups to the original.