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Oprah Winfrey is speaking out in support of her long time friend Gayle King after the veteran journalist came under fire for bringing up Kobe Bryant’s rape case during an interview with WNBA star Lisa Leslie.
Sports fans and celebrities alike have been coming for King hard for what they believe to be attempting to smear Bryant’s legacy just one week after he died in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
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The late NBA icon was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel employee in Colorado in 2003. Bryant was charged with rape, but the case was dropped after the accuser declined to testify. She later filed a civil suit that was settled.
In an Instagram response video that went viral, Snoop Dogg issued a threat to King, saying “How dare you try to tarnish my motherf–king homeboy’s reputation, punk motherf–ker?” he ranted. “Respect the family and back off, bitch, before we come get you.”
And on that note, King is said to be depressed over the ongoing backlash to her interview with Leslie for CBS This Morning, so Winfrey hit up the Today show Friday and became visibly emotional while speaking with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager about the controversy, Entertainment Tonight reports.
Winfrey said King is “not doing well” after she came under attack, and she’s even receiving death threats.
“May I say, she is not doing well. She is not doing well because she has, now, death threats and has to now travel with security and she’s feeling very much attacked,” Winfrey said.
She added, “She is not doing well and feels that she was put in a really terrible position because that interview had already run. And in the context of the interview, everyone seemed fine, including Lisa Leslie, and it was only because somebody at the network put up that clip. And I can see how people would obviously be very upset if you thought that Gayle was just trying to press to get an answer from Lisa Leslie. She obviously, all things pass, she will be OK, but she hasn’t slept in two days.”
Multiple people have accused both King and Winfrey of using their platforms to tear down Black men accused of sex crimes while ignoring similar crimes leveled against influential white males, such as Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, and Larry King. Even incarcerated star Bill Cosby tweeted Snoop Dogg from prison to thank him for ripping into King over the interview.
“Bill Cosby is… tweeting from jail and she’s not doing well and feels she was put in a really terrible position because that interview had already run and in the context of the interview, everyone seemed fine,” said Winfrey on Today. “It was only because somebody, at the network, put up that clip. And I can see how people would obviously be very upset if you thought that Gayle was trying to press to get an answer from Lisa Leslie.”
King previously responded to the fury against her via a video clip published on her social, in which she blames CBS for uploading an ‘out of context’ clip of her interview with Leslie.
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Barack Obama’s former national security advisor, Susan Rice has clapped back at Snoop Dogg for threatening Gayle King over interview questions she asked about Kobe Bryant during an interview for CBS This Morning.
King has been hit hard with a wave of criticism for asking about Bryant’s 2003 rape case in an interview with WNBA star Lisa Leslie.
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Sports fans and celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Ari Lennox, and Boosie Badazz wasted no time dragging the veteran journalist in the mud for attempting to smear Bryant’s legacy.
In an Instagram response video that went viral, the West Coast rapper appears to issue a threat to King, saying:
“Gayle King,” he said, shaking his head. “Out of pocket for that s–t. Way out of pocket. What do you gain from that? I swear to God, we’re the worst. We’re the f–king worst. We expect more from you, Gayle. Don’t you hang out with Oprah [Winfrey]? Why ya’ll attacking us? We your people. You ain’t coming after f–king [producer] Harvey Weinstein, asking them dumbass questions. I get sick of ya’ll.”
“How dare you try to tarnish my motherf–king homeboy’s reputation, punk motherf–ker?” he continued. “Respect the family and back off, bitch, before we come get you.”
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice added her voice to the chorus of critics against Snoop’s threat against a woman, UJ City News reports.
“This is despicable. Gayle King is one of the most principled, fair and tough journalists alive,” Rice wrote on Twitter. “Snoop, back the **** off. You come for @GayleKing, you come against an army. You will lose, and it won’t be pretty.”
King responded via a video clip published on her social media, in which she blames CBS for uploading an ‘out of context’ clip of her interview.
“I’ve been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant, and I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too,” King said in an Instagram video in response to the criticism. “I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry.”
She added, “Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview totally taken out of context, and when you see it that way, it’s very jarring. It’s jarring to me. I didn’t even know anything about it. I started getting calls. … I didn’t know what people were talking about.”
CBS acknowledged that the clip shared online “did not reflect the nature and tone of the full interview.”
“Gayle conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with Lisa Leslie about the legacy of Kobe Bryant. An excerpt was posted that did not reflect the nature and tone of the full interview. We are addressing the internal process that led to this and changes have already been made,” the network said in a statement obtained by Page Six.
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Chance the Rapper’s youth-empowering charity SocialWorks is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month.
The Grammy-award winning rapper and humanitarian co-founded the non-profit organization in his hometown Chicago in August 2016, with his pals Justin Cunningham, and Essence Smith.
SocialWorks aims to support Chicago Public Schools by raising money for social issues that affect the city’s most at-risk youth. According to the non-profit’s website, the rapper aims to empower students through education, homelessness, mental health support, as well as offering safe spaces to highlight Chicago’s artistic community.
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Chance (born Chancelor Bennett) previously said that he founded SocialWorks with the intention of “giving back to his community.” The organization has so far raised $8 million, including $2 million donated by the rapper himself, ABC 7 Chicago reports.
In related news, Chance and his brother Taylor Bennett have been tapped by the NBA to serve as ambassadors for the 69th All-Star Game in Chicago next week.
The NBA All-Star Weekend will descend upon the Windy City on Feb. 14-16, attracting a slew of ballers, celebrities, and fans who will come together for the league’s most exciting event of the year.
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The NBA announced the official roster for the All-Star Celebrity Game on Wednesday, and the group includes local talent, basketball stars, and recording artists.
Chance the Rapper and Common are captains in the Feb. 14 game at Wintrust Arena and they will also perform at halftime at the United Center.
Here are the rosters for the Celebrity Game, via Chicago Tribune:
Team Stephen A. (Away)
Team Wilbon (Home)
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