Removing a status

[Roberta Stephen]

I have used text to describe something while I am away an now want to delete the message permanently.  When I looked at Pidgin FAQ’s it said to hover over the unwanted status and press delete.  This did not work.  Please tell me how to remove these unwanted statuses.
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