SAN FRANCISCO — A testy Nan­cy Pelosi said Wednes­day she takes respon­si­bil­i­ty for trust­ing the word of a San Fran­cis­co hair salon that it was OK to come in for a solo vis­it — even though the city still does not allow indoor beau­ty ser­vices because of the coro­n­avirus pandemic.

But the Demo­c­ra­t­ic House Speak­er called Monday’s vis­it a “set-up” and said the salon owes her an apol­o­gy for mis­rep­re­sent­ing city health orders.

“I take respon­si­bil­i­ty for trust­ing the word of a neigh­bor­hood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times, and that when they said … we’re able to accom­mo­date peo­ple one per­son at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trust­ed that,” Pelosi told reporters Wednes­day. “As it turns out, it was a set-up.”

“I take respon­si­bil­i­ty for falling for a set-up,” she said.

Pelosi is fac­ing fierce back­lash after Fox News Chan­nel aired sur­veil­lance footage from the salon that showed her walk­ing through the salon with her hair wet and with a mask around her neck rather than on her face. In the clip, a masked styl­ist fol­lows her.

Crit­ics, includ­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, called her a hyp­ocrite and asked why she did not know the coro­n­avirus-relat­ed rules in her home city.

Eri­ca Kious, own­er of eSa­lon in the city’s upscale Mari­na dis­trict, told Fox News that she rents chairs to styl­ists and one of them informed her in advance that Pelosi want­ed a wash and blow dry. Cal­i­for­nia guide­lines on salons vary by coun­ty, but strin­gent San Fran­cis­co offi­cials have not yet per­mit­ted indoor salons to open.

Kious said she con­sid­ered Pelosi get­ting her hair done “a slap in the face” to strug­gling busi­ness own­ers. She did not respond to requests for com­ment from The Asso­ci­at­ed Press.

Health order vio­la­tions can be pun­ished by a fine, impris­on­ment or both. But San Fran­cis­co has stressed edu­ca­tion over enforce­ment and has been reluc­tant to penal­ize busi­ness­es and individuals.

Pelosi said Wednes­day she would not answer any more ques­tions about the vis­it and asked at one point whether reporters had any ques­tions “about the fact that peo­ple are dying,” refer­ring to the HEROES Act leg­is­la­tion she called the news con­fer­ence to address.

A reporter asked why she was not wear­ing a mask in the brief clip.

“I just had my hair washed. I don’t wear a mask when I’m wash­ing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you’re wash­ing your hair? I always have a mask,” Pelosi said.

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Asso­ci­at­ed Press news asso­ciate Cheyanne Mumphrey in Phoenix con­tributed to this report.