This is an apology in action. By owning it, he’s sparing the women the speculation about their past, their motives, and their complicity in what he did. One reason so few victims come forward is that exploiters usually don’t only deny everything, they go nuclear, and recruit allies to trash every aspect of their victims’ lives. He’s done the exact opposite of what the Cosbys and Clintons of the world do. It’s what separates people who do bad things from people who are just bad.
I was just taught that when you do something wrong or stupid, you actually say “I’m sorry”. I have more respect for Louis CK for handling it the way he has as opposed to the way most handle it, but like I said, I was always taught that an apology includes “I’m sorry”.