BET’s Vice President Stephen Hill has hit out at claims that Chris Brown‘s emotional performance at last Sunday’s BET Awards featured ‘fake tears’.
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Speaking to All Hip-Hop, Hill refuted such suggestion, taking particular aim at recent suggestion that Brown applied tear-inducing creame just prior to the culmination of his Michael Jackson tribute:
I think the pressure of the year and the lyrics of that song really just resonated. And, as someone who was backstage, there was nothing fake about that. I think there is a US Weekly story today about like his bodyguard gave him something to induce tears. Its just not true. I’ve been around actors who cry and when you fake cry, you don’t get…your throat doesn’t get swollen like it does [when you cry for real]. When he was trying to sing, he couldn’t get anything out. That’s a hard thing to fake. I appreciate people wanting to create controversy, but this guy has gone though a lot this past year, let this emotion be what it is. Everybody comes to the moment where you gotta make that change.
Thank you!
How some are finding it oh-so-easy to nitpick, failing to factor in the emotional journey Chris has been through over the last 15 months (fan of his or not) is beyond me. SMH…