ok. I hate reading "so and so should be fired". None of us have any idea what goes on in reality on the set... but if one more person is fired... I will stop watching the show.
His story sounds so far fetched though... I feel he has done a discredit to himself by mentioning so many peoples names... claiming TR wanted the two male leads fired... doubt that sorry!! There wld be no show to watch...
I dunno... he seems a bit insane.
DixieGirl Says:
June 28th, 2007 8:44 AM
PD's comments on TwoP are in the forums, under Grey Matter / Patrick Dempsey. Probably a few pages back by now.
I tried to post a link, but I don't think it worked...
McYummyMyTummy Says:
June 28th, 2007 11:46 AM
Iceman
I didn't really mean to say that I believe everything TR says or that he didn't make a big deal about it. Obviously, he did, when it happened and sometime after it happened. But now that's he's fired, he's changed his story from this rehab and psa stuff is for the betterment of me, to i did this for my job. idk. This stuff is crazy and whatever.....I don't really feel the want anymore to discuss their problems....which is actually very contradictory to my whole defense of what i said earlier.........whatever
McYummyMyTummy Says:
June 28th, 2007 8:51 PM
correction* after i talked about TR in my last comment, i said "but now that he's fired," I was referring to IW
Bobbi Says:
June 29th, 2007 8:13 AM
Here is the website to PD comments.... http://www.greysanatomyinsider.com/categories/cast-news/patrick-dempsey/page/5/
He never once says that anyone else was there or part of the disagreement.... I think i believe IW
allie Says:
June 29th, 2007 10:45 AM
SEROIUSLY?! god i can't believe that about Dempsey saying Knight should be fired. what a prick. it's not knight's fault he's gay and it's also not his fault that washington is an ignorant ass.
Christina Says:
June 29th, 2007 2:48 PM
This is for Delisa, who responed to my comment on the 27th. You are an IDIOT. I do believe that the last white man that used the term "nappy headed hoes" did loose his job (may I mention that term was also used to describe several white women on that team, it should have been looked at degrading to all women not just to black women), and there was a big in your words "hoop dee doo". I can't believe that now Isiaih is trying to use the race card as the reason he was fired. It would matter if he was white with freakin purple poka-dots what he said was wrong. And I guaruntee you that if Patrick or T.R. has referred to him as a stupid nigger (since you obviously take and offense to me abbrivating it) or a nappy headed hoe that there would be no long drawn out, film a PSA and it wil all go way solution to the problem, he would have been fired on the spot. I believe that all minorites should be treated equally, but I have problem when they feel they should be treated better and they should be able to get away with anything, and of course anytime something doesn't go your way let's pull the race card.
eb Says:
June 29th, 2007 3:52 PM
being gay is not a minority. they don't get the equal rights as if they were black,white,asian,native american,or hispanic. they have no rights. they can be nasty if that's what they want, but they don't have the legal RIGHT to be nasty. they want the rights so bad, but they will never get the right, no matter what they do or say. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! i don't hate gays. i hate what they do.
Mary Says:
June 30th, 2007 11:58 AM
Isaiah said "black men don't get second chances"!
Hello????????? Hasn't he ever heard of OJ SIMPSON??
cristina Says:
July 1st, 2007 1:29 AM
T.R KNIGH should absolutely BE FIRED!!! He's not important at all for the story, and he's becoming more and more ennoying. Please, put someone else in his place, someone with charisma, intelligence and good-looking, unlike him. PLEASE!
Sarah Says:
July 2nd, 2007 11:01 AM
This is getting dull.
I wish Isaiah and T.R. and who ever else is in this should just take this aside and stop this because I'm afraid at some point this is going to effect the show just because our actors couldn't talk things out or be a bit more mature about situations like this. -_-
Brenda Says:
July 2nd, 2007 4:34 PM
Does no one see this is ofcourse like a he said she said sort or thing. Like women and gossip and the story has twisted and twisted. Maybe he did say it and maybe it is possible that TR took the story and dramatized it to his likeing. Why would Washington years ago write a article about gay people and go against those values he held. Is it at all possible that TR is being a drama queen and causeing trouble on is own set and with the people he works with. Telling Patrick this and that and then turning it around on him and tellin Washington that Patrick is this and that and therefore changeing the way he may feel or think of him. Not sure about you but sometimes the little people who don't get the great part and are not happy with what they have get jealous. I think just that that this is whay may have all happend.
Just work it out guys and if not well any character should go you can ask TR to go..
Brenda Says:
July 2nd, 2007 4:38 PM
I don't think this is at all a gay thing. It is plain jealousy that is it. Like I said the TR character can be gotten rid of. Not because of him being really not that great of a part of the show but because of the crap he has started in his own show.
Amanda Says:
July 2nd, 2007 8:23 PM
I think Isaiah is RIGHT to be talking to everyone about the injustice he's suffering from Grey's Anatomy. And Yes, I think T.R. Knight is milking his way to the top by playing the victim, and Katherine Heigl is totally supporting it. For some reason, they didn't support Isaiah being on the show and they did everything possible for get him out - he's a great actor with many more years in business than them and they conspired to kick him out. So he needs to speak out as much as possible against the crazy stuff that happens in the TV industry in favor of young, immature Hollywood-ites who have no substance or talent.
melissa m. Says:
July 2nd, 2007 10:49 PM
I am watching the interview now and all I can say is T.R. is a major asshole(I don't usually like to curse but that is the only way to describe him at this moment).
Isaiah Washington seems very disapointed in himself and his castmastes for how this whole thing went down. I don't think he's lying at all and I bet you anything that it is ver free and liberating for him to finally clear his name and make sure that everyone gets the real story on what happened.
And by the way, T.R gives the gay community a bad name. He's such a drama queen and hoepfully karma will comeback to bite him in the ass.
As for Patrick, he needs to remember that he was NOTHING before Grey's Anatomy came along. He should be kissing the people who work at ABC and Shonda's asses for giving him this chance at a comeback. I will most likely still watch the show just because I love Ellen, Sandra, Chandra, Sara and Justin but screw Patrick, Kate, and especially screw T.R.
And for the recorder THE CAST OF ER WOULD HAVE NEVER ACTED LIKE THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE CLASS!!!!!!!!!
Riftalope Says:
July 3rd, 2007 11:56 AM
Is anybody paying attention? It looks like everyone against Isaiah has their agenda earplugs in.
1: This story came out when it shouldn't have been news. Who cares if a private conversation, or working arguement offended somebody else? Take it to your boss, not the press!
2: Isaiah's recorded use of faggot (isn't that a bundle of twigs?) was clearly a reply if you listen to the intonation. Plus, if you can't use the word you're talking about in its own discussion it's kind of childish.
3: Later the studio put a gag order on it's employees leaving the press and factions to fester. At the same time the cast puts together what really happened, like T.R. never actually hearing the conversation.
4: Isaiah isn't under contract any more and is the only one free to tell any story.
5: He isn't slamming Dempsey, he's saying everyone fell for T.R.'s act. Like nobody gay can be a conniving prick? Happens everywhere. Sorry.
I've worked with and around SAG actors and made friends with industry people well enough to know how that little world works. Never break a contract, gag orders are real! When the word goes out that YOU can't be controlled by the fine print YOU signed then YOU can't get a good job. They use that contract to control everything from when you work to who you associate with. If you're in a contract and they tell you not to be seen with somebody they've fired, ALL the studios find out if you disobeyed. They don't care if you've been poker buddies or are even married. Everyone knows that "Sorry. Can't work with you." is a death sentence. And some people are so cowed they'll avoid you so their studio won't think you side with them. At least now there are independent film studios with big studio quality. But as far as Hollywood work goes, forget it for at least a year. Work is out of town.
Maggie Says:
July 3rd, 2007 12:10 PM
It seems that as most of us I assume are Americans? In America a man isn't suppose to be guilty until proven so, that's how politics work. Hollywood is political, Each party gets to prove their sides. Everyone including fans started throwing knives at IW before they heard both sides. If you remember PD admitted himself he did not have a good reputation at one point either for his quick temper in Hollywood as well, and got banned for years. Now I love PD so much, but I also see IW point...why shouldn't he want to tell his side of the story? It looks like people still want to deny the truth. He already admitted he was wrong but to tell his side of the what happened that day is the way any of us would want to do. Theres nothing worse than being called a liar when you know you are telling the truth. None of us were there, I don't know how you can be so cruel. From the beginning if you actually read any of it before you started saying he's a liar, it was reported that TR came in after the fact. Men argue Men fight they use their fist and cuss each other out to get a point across. I wonder if you would have been so cruel to PD if the shoe was on the other foot. If any of you have siblings I am sure you have been through this and would go to your mother and father to prove that you weren't the one to play ball in the house and broke your grandmothers vase and would beat the hell out of your brother if he didn't tell the truth about it!
Janine Says:
July 3rd, 2007 7:17 PM
Preston Burke was the most interesting character on Grey's (and the sexiest!). And George is not only the least interesting on the show but is terribly miscast--there is no chemistry between him and his various love interests. the show will suffer the loss of Dr. Burke, regardless of what anyone thinks about Isaiah Washington personally.
It looks to me like T.R. Knight has exacerbated the situation when he wasn't the subject of the insult. Now the show is broken.
JMHO
MailHead Says:
July 4th, 2007 10:28 PM
CLAIM (at one point in the LKL interview):
KING: So you weren't referring to him (TRK) as being an F person?
WASHINGTON: Never. Never.
KING: Or anybody else being one?
WASHINGTON: Never, Larry. Never, never, never, never,
KING: You said you can't treat me like a --
WASHINGTON: No.
LIE EXPOSED (at another point in the LKL interview):
WASHINGTON: I said, "I don't -- I don't want to bring anymore attention to this than I already have. I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but I've got to clear my name. I -- this is misinterpreted. I did not say" -- I said yes, you're not going to "B" me, "P" me, "F" me, because I'm not T.R.
MailHead Says:
July 4th, 2007 10:29 PM
CLAIM (at one point in the LKL interview):
KING: And the "F" word meaning he was treating you like a gay person?
WASHINGTON: No. Just, in terms of the way I meant it is that any -- the "F" word to me, at that particular time, before this took off in this other direction, in terms of sexual orientation, it meant something -- it meant, to me, someone who is being weak --
KING: Oh.
WASHINGTON: -- a person who is not being treated -- is not deserving of respect.
LIE EXPOSED (at another point in the LKL interview):
WASHINGTON: Well, I kind of grew up in a gay community here in New York and...
KING: Gay friends?
WASHINGTON: Yes. And the word was thrown around quite a bit.
MailHead Says:
July 4th, 2007 10:29 PM
CLAIM:
WASHINGTON to PD: We've been standing here waiting on you here for 20 minutes.
He says, so he says, "Well, whatever. Whatever." He blows me off, which was fine. And I said OK. This coverage is on us and time is ticking away. And we're waiting on Ellen for off-camera. And I said, "Well, why are we waiting on Ellen? I don't need to wait on Ellen. We just have one line that he'll say to you and then you can go on your way."
Then he says, "Well, I need Ellen."
And I said, "Well, I don't need Ellen. I can act."
Now that was the moment that sent it into a different zone. And as we talked later after the argument, he thought I said that he could not act.
LIE EXPOSED:
KING: Well, you were implying that by saying I can act.
WASHINGTON: Yes.
KING: Meaning he can't act.
WASHINGTON: Yes.
MailHead Says:
July 4th, 2007 10:30 PM
WASHINGTON: I don't want to racialize this thing, you know?
LIE EXPOSED:
KING: Do you think, Isaiah, there's anything racist in this? If you were a white member of the cast, do you think it would have been different?
WASHINGTON: I don't know. But I think it is unfortunate that this smacks of that. I would like to feel in my heart that it's not that.
(in 6/28/07 interview): "If a black man can't get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. Well, it didn't help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn't a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn't speak like I'd just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime," he says. "I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that 'some people' were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I'm a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn't go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir' and ‘No sir, massa' to everyone? It's nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family."
In his explanation he was saying that he would not be treated like a b, p or f, meaning the way that PD was treating TR, according to what TR had been telling IW. That wasn't calling TR a f. I more incline to believe IW simply because there has never been any indication that they didn't get along, and that there was any animosity between the two. I've always seen pictures of them smiling together.
Also, he didn't lie about saying PD couldn't act. I'm not sure if you intentional missed this so you could call him a liar, but this is what was said. IW: "he thought I said that he couldn't act, and he was rightfully so." He didn't lie, he admitted that, and that's when Larry questioned him further about it.
See this just proves that people hear what they want to hear.
I think Larry King believes him, too. I like when IW mention that the National Enqurier first reported it, then the New York Times reported it , and Larry jumped in to say that their [New YorK Times] not always right. Larry saying that spoke volume.
June 28th, 2007 8:06 AM
ok. I hate reading "so and so should be fired". None of us have any idea what goes on in reality on the set... but if one more person is fired... I will stop watching the show.
His story sounds so far fetched though... I feel he has done a discredit to himself by mentioning so many peoples names... claiming TR wanted the two male leads fired... doubt that sorry!! There wld be no show to watch...
I dunno... he seems a bit insane.
June 28th, 2007 8:44 AM
PD's comments on TwoP are in the forums, under Grey Matter / Patrick Dempsey. Probably a few pages back by now.
I tried to post a link, but I don't think it worked...
June 28th, 2007 11:46 AM
Iceman
I didn't really mean to say that I believe everything TR says or that he didn't make a big deal about it. Obviously, he did, when it happened and sometime after it happened. But now that's he's fired, he's changed his story from this rehab and psa stuff is for the betterment of me, to i did this for my job. idk. This stuff is crazy and whatever.....I don't really feel the want anymore to discuss their problems....which is actually very contradictory to my whole defense of what i said earlier.........whatever
June 28th, 2007 8:51 PM
correction* after i talked about TR in my last comment, i said "but now that he's fired," I was referring to IW
June 29th, 2007 8:13 AM
Here is the website to PD comments.... http://www.greysanatomyinsider.com/categories/cast-news/patrick-dempsey/page/5/
He never once says that anyone else was there or part of the disagreement.... I think i believe IW
June 29th, 2007 10:45 AM
SEROIUSLY?! god i can't believe that about Dempsey saying Knight should be fired. what a prick. it's not knight's fault he's gay and it's also not his fault that washington is an ignorant ass.
June 29th, 2007 2:48 PM
This is for Delisa, who responed to my comment on the 27th. You are an IDIOT. I do believe that the last white man that used the term "nappy headed hoes" did loose his job (may I mention that term was also used to describe several white women on that team, it should have been looked at degrading to all women not just to black women), and there was a big in your words "hoop dee doo". I can't believe that now Isiaih is trying to use the race card as the reason he was fired. It would matter if he was white with freakin purple poka-dots what he said was wrong. And I guaruntee you that if Patrick or T.R. has referred to him as a stupid nigger (since you obviously take and offense to me abbrivating it) or a nappy headed hoe that there would be no long drawn out, film a PSA and it wil all go way solution to the problem, he would have been fired on the spot. I believe that all minorites should be treated equally, but I have problem when they feel they should be treated better and they should be able to get away with anything, and of course anytime something doesn't go your way let's pull the race card.
June 29th, 2007 3:52 PM
being gay is not a minority. they don't get the equal rights as if they were black,white,asian,native american,or hispanic. they have no rights. they can be nasty if that's what they want, but they don't have the legal RIGHT to be nasty. they want the rights so bad, but they will never get the right, no matter what they do or say. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! i don't hate gays. i hate what they do.
June 30th, 2007 11:58 AM
Isaiah said "black men don't get second chances"!
Hello????????? Hasn't he ever heard of OJ SIMPSON??
July 1st, 2007 1:29 AM
T.R KNIGH should absolutely BE FIRED!!! He's not important at all for the story, and he's becoming more and more ennoying. Please, put someone else in his place, someone with charisma, intelligence and good-looking, unlike him. PLEASE!
July 2nd, 2007 11:01 AM
This is getting dull.
I wish Isaiah and T.R. and who ever else is in this should just take this aside and stop this because I'm afraid at some point this is going to effect the show just because our actors couldn't talk things out or be a bit more mature about situations like this. -_-
July 2nd, 2007 4:34 PM
Does no one see this is ofcourse like a he said she said sort or thing. Like women and gossip and the story has twisted and twisted. Maybe he did say it and maybe it is possible that TR took the story and dramatized it to his likeing. Why would Washington years ago write a article about gay people and go against those values he held. Is it at all possible that TR is being a drama queen and causeing trouble on is own set and with the people he works with. Telling Patrick this and that and then turning it around on him and tellin Washington that Patrick is this and that and therefore changeing the way he may feel or think of him. Not sure about you but sometimes the little people who don't get the great part and are not happy with what they have get jealous. I think just that that this is whay may have all happend.
Just work it out guys and if not well any character should go you can ask TR to go..
July 2nd, 2007 4:38 PM
I don't think this is at all a gay thing. It is plain jealousy that is it. Like I said the TR character can be gotten rid of. Not because of him being really not that great of a part of the show but because of the crap he has started in his own show.
July 2nd, 2007 8:23 PM
I think Isaiah is RIGHT to be talking to everyone about the injustice he's suffering from Grey's Anatomy. And Yes, I think T.R. Knight is milking his way to the top by playing the victim, and Katherine Heigl is totally supporting it. For some reason, they didn't support Isaiah being on the show and they did everything possible for get him out - he's a great actor with many more years in business than them and they conspired to kick him out. So he needs to speak out as much as possible against the crazy stuff that happens in the TV industry in favor of young, immature Hollywood-ites who have no substance or talent.
July 2nd, 2007 10:49 PM
I am watching the interview now and all I can say is T.R. is a major asshole(I don't usually like to curse but that is the only way to describe him at this moment).
Isaiah Washington seems very disapointed in himself and his castmastes for how this whole thing went down. I don't think he's lying at all and I bet you anything that it is ver free and liberating for him to finally clear his name and make sure that everyone gets the real story on what happened.
And by the way, T.R gives the gay community a bad name. He's such a drama queen and hoepfully karma will comeback to bite him in the ass.
As for Patrick, he needs to remember that he was NOTHING before Grey's Anatomy came along. He should be kissing the people who work at ABC and Shonda's asses for giving him this chance at a comeback. I will most likely still watch the show just because I love Ellen, Sandra, Chandra, Sara and Justin but screw Patrick, Kate, and especially screw T.R.
And for the recorder THE CAST OF ER WOULD HAVE NEVER ACTED LIKE THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE CLASS!!!!!!!!!
July 3rd, 2007 11:56 AM
Is anybody paying attention? It looks like everyone against Isaiah has their agenda earplugs in.
1: This story came out when it shouldn't have been news. Who cares if a private conversation, or working arguement offended somebody else? Take it to your boss, not the press!
2: Isaiah's recorded use of faggot (isn't that a bundle of twigs?) was clearly a reply if you listen to the intonation. Plus, if you can't use the word you're talking about in its own discussion it's kind of childish.
3: Later the studio put a gag order on it's employees leaving the press and factions to fester. At the same time the cast puts together what really happened, like T.R. never actually hearing the conversation.
4: Isaiah isn't under contract any more and is the only one free to tell any story.
5: He isn't slamming Dempsey, he's saying everyone fell for T.R.'s act. Like nobody gay can be a conniving prick? Happens everywhere. Sorry.
I've worked with and around SAG actors and made friends with industry people well enough to know how that little world works. Never break a contract, gag orders are real! When the word goes out that YOU can't be controlled by the fine print YOU signed then YOU can't get a good job. They use that contract to control everything from when you work to who you associate with. If you're in a contract and they tell you not to be seen with somebody they've fired, ALL the studios find out if you disobeyed. They don't care if you've been poker buddies or are even married. Everyone knows that "Sorry. Can't work with you." is a death sentence. And some people are so cowed they'll avoid you so their studio won't think you side with them. At least now there are independent film studios with big studio quality. But as far as Hollywood work goes, forget it for at least a year. Work is out of town.
July 3rd, 2007 12:10 PM
It seems that as most of us I assume are Americans? In America a man isn't suppose to be guilty until proven so, that's how politics work. Hollywood is political, Each party gets to prove their sides. Everyone including fans started throwing knives at IW before they heard both sides. If you remember PD admitted himself he did not have a good reputation at one point either for his quick temper in Hollywood as well, and got banned for years. Now I love PD so much, but I also see IW point...why shouldn't he want to tell his side of the story? It looks like people still want to deny the truth. He already admitted he was wrong but to tell his side of the what happened that day is the way any of us would want to do. Theres nothing worse than being called a liar when you know you are telling the truth. None of us were there, I don't know how you can be so cruel. From the beginning if you actually read any of it before you started saying he's a liar, it was reported that TR came in after the fact. Men argue Men fight they use their fist and cuss each other out to get a point across. I wonder if you would have been so cruel to PD if the shoe was on the other foot. If any of you have siblings I am sure you have been through this and would go to your mother and father to prove that you weren't the one to play ball in the house and broke your grandmothers vase and would beat the hell out of your brother if he didn't tell the truth about it!
July 3rd, 2007 7:17 PM
Preston Burke was the most interesting character on Grey's (and the sexiest!). And George is not only the least interesting on the show but is terribly miscast--there is no chemistry between him and his various love interests. the show will suffer the loss of Dr. Burke, regardless of what anyone thinks about Isaiah Washington personally.
It looks to me like T.R. Knight has exacerbated the situation when he wasn't the subject of the insult. Now the show is broken.
JMHO
July 4th, 2007 10:28 PM
CLAIM (at one point in the LKL interview):
KING: So you weren't referring to him (TRK) as being an F person?
WASHINGTON: Never. Never.
KING: Or anybody else being one?
WASHINGTON: Never, Larry. Never, never, never, never,
KING: You said you can't treat me like a --
WASHINGTON: No.
LIE EXPOSED (at another point in the LKL interview):
WASHINGTON: I said, "I don't -- I don't want to bring anymore attention to this than I already have. I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but I've got to clear my name. I -- this is misinterpreted. I did not say" -- I said yes, you're not going to "B" me, "P" me, "F" me, because I'm not T.R.
July 4th, 2007 10:29 PM
CLAIM (at one point in the LKL interview):
KING: And the "F" word meaning he was treating you like a gay person?
WASHINGTON: No. Just, in terms of the way I meant it is that any -- the "F" word to me, at that particular time, before this took off in this other direction, in terms of sexual orientation, it meant something -- it meant, to me, someone who is being weak --
KING: Oh.
WASHINGTON: -- a person who is not being treated -- is not deserving of respect.
LIE EXPOSED (at another point in the LKL interview):
WASHINGTON: Well, I kind of grew up in a gay community here in New York and...
KING: Gay friends?
WASHINGTON: Yes. And the word was thrown around quite a bit.
July 4th, 2007 10:29 PM
CLAIM:
WASHINGTON to PD: We've been standing here waiting on you here for 20 minutes.
He says, so he says, "Well, whatever. Whatever." He blows me off, which was fine. And I said OK. This coverage is on us and time is ticking away. And we're waiting on Ellen for off-camera. And I said, "Well, why are we waiting on Ellen? I don't need to wait on Ellen. We just have one line that he'll say to you and then you can go on your way."
Then he says, "Well, I need Ellen."
And I said, "Well, I don't need Ellen. I can act."
Now that was the moment that sent it into a different zone. And as we talked later after the argument, he thought I said that he could not act.
LIE EXPOSED:
KING: Well, you were implying that by saying I can act.
WASHINGTON: Yes.
KING: Meaning he can't act.
WASHINGTON: Yes.
July 4th, 2007 10:30 PM
WASHINGTON: I don't want to racialize this thing, you know?
LIE EXPOSED:
KING: Do you think, Isaiah, there's anything racist in this? If you were a white member of the cast, do you think it would have been different?
WASHINGTON: I don't know. But I think it is unfortunate that this smacks of that. I would like to feel in my heart that it's not that.
(in 6/28/07 interview): "If a black man can't get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. Well, it didn't help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn't a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn't speak like I'd just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime," he says. "I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that 'some people' were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I'm a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn't go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir' and ‘No sir, massa' to everyone? It's nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family."
July 4th, 2007 10:31 PM
IW is a liar!!!
July 5th, 2007 7:36 AM
In his explanation he was saying that he would not be treated like a b, p or f, meaning the way that PD was treating TR, according to what TR had been telling IW. That wasn't calling TR a f. I more incline to believe IW simply because there has never been any indication that they didn't get along, and that there was any animosity between the two. I've always seen pictures of them smiling together.
Also, he didn't lie about saying PD couldn't act. I'm not sure if you intentional missed this so you could call him a liar, but this is what was said. IW: "he thought I said that he couldn't act, and he was rightfully so." He didn't lie, he admitted that, and that's when Larry questioned him further about it.
See this just proves that people hear what they want to hear.
July 5th, 2007 8:13 AM
I think Larry King believes him, too. I like when IW mention that the National Enqurier first reported it, then the New York Times reported it , and Larry jumped in to say that their [New YorK Times] not always right. Larry saying that spoke volume.