“I will say this and I want to make this very clear. Once again, Kevin Hart apologizes for his remarks that hurt members of the LGBTQ community. I apologize.”
Just a month after informing detractors he was done apologizing for his resurfaced anti-LGBT tweets (click here to read more on that), Kevin Hart‘s making his change of tune known as he hits the promo trail in support of his newest film, ‘The Upside’ ( in theaters January 11).
Last week taking to ‘Ellen’ to discuss how the backlash surrounding the tweets has impacted him personally (click here to see), this week saw the comedian issue yet another apology to the LGBT community on his SiriusXM radio show, ‘Straight From the Hart.’ Airing on his ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Radio Channel 96 on Monday evening (January 7), Hart doesn’t hold back in his address….
After quoting the inappropriate joke verbatim, Hart said, “’I want to say that I have no problem with gay people. I don’t have a homophobic bone in my body. I want you to be happy, be gay, be happy.'”
“I really had to dive into the whole thing, even the tweets,” Hart explained. “These weren’t words that I said to gay individuals. I didn’t say these words to people, at the time, this was our dumb asses on Twitter going back and forth with each other. We thought it was okay to talk like that, because that’s how we talked to one another. In that, you go, fuck! This is wrong now.”
Click here to listen to the episode in full.
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The 2019 Academy Awards may be shrouded in uncertainty over who will replace Hart as Oscars host this year, but what is certain is the show will go on live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24th!
What in the Kanye Donald Trump is going on with him? Can you pick 1 version of yourself and stick to it?
I find it very sad that people have to constantly apologize for their own feelings and beliefs. He’s a comedian who should not apologize for his past jokes. If you don’t like what someone has to say then don’t watch their movies attend their shows Etc. If he has a grown man feels a certain way and expresses that then he should have that right as an individual that he is. Why must we then have to deal with coward people who hide behind computer screens and flood in inboxes because they don’t like a certain comment? What happened to freedom of speech and the ability to live as an individual? Why are we so consumed as a people and focus on what others have to say so much? I remember a time when parents would teach their children to ignore the comments of people that we don’t appreciate or feel is wrong. We didn’t sit and fight and have conversations and argue back and forth over something that we didn’t like. And now with the world changing especially in America as far as gay rights just because we now have a law that openly allows same-s** marriage acknowledges the gay community it doesn’t mean that everybody has to accept it. And this is coming from a gay man. How someone chooses to live and speak and their life is their business you don’t like it as I said before ignore and move on don’t entertain the situation let them live how they choose to live. Isn’t that what we want in the gay community is the ability to live how we want to? So let’s stop forcing how we feel down other people’s throats and then getting mad when people have an opposite opinion enough is enough it’s like grow up and focus on your life rather with other people have to say all the damn time.
This right here!
I’m sorry, but telling a crowd of people that you would and condone beating a child for exhibiting homosexual behavior is not just a “personal belief” it is harmful and wrong PERIOD.
If this was a white comedian saying he would beat his child for acting like or playing with a black child or even used the N word, would you be defending his “beliefs and opinions”? I didn’t think so. It’s dangerous harmful rhetoric and he had a huge stage to make bring light to the situation but he played the victim because of pride and homophobia.
And you feel that way probably because you live the lifestyle right or wrong? You can’t tell someone how to raise a child nor tell YOU the lifestyle to live. If his household doesn’t believe in homosexuality then thats their right just like over the past 30 years the gay community that I’m apart of has been saying give us our rights. What I don’t appreciate is how the gay community continues to force their feelings and beliefs on the world and cry wolf when someone is against it. I grew up in a strict household and knew morals and values today’s generation care nothing about it and the minds are too damn clouded with social media and reality tv. If we want to be accepted as part of society then we must first learn to accept we all see and view things different and the ONLY right we all have is being human and to live as one.
If the Oscar pick him, It will either get view from everyone curious to see what he’ll act like or have no views because they disagree with his homophobia.
Apologise to black women…..you and that n***** Kodak black…that n*****
Gay people do WAY too much sometimes. This is not that damn deep, let it go already.
What I’ve come to realize is that a lot of people in the LGBT community can dish it but they can’t take it. If he’s apologized once then let that be good enough. as he said everybody has the right to grow and mature. A person is defined by who they are now not who they were years ago. Especially if they made the effort to change.
I totally agree.
Where did he apologize the first time? If you can find that then please share with everyone.
Also, when did he start referring to himself in the 3rd person?? He’s playing the victim, again.
I was rubbed the wrong way when his controversial tweets came to light again in 2018 (more so by his initial handling of the controversy), but the man has apologized multiple times….we can’t hold his feet to the fire for the rest of his life, can we?
The gays are so sensitive.