T.I stopped by Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk with his wife, Tiny Harris, on Monday (Nov. 25) to discuss the controversial comments regarding having his teenage daughter’s hymen checked at yearly gynecologist visits.
This #RedTableTalk is so interesting. So it was just an exaggeration? Wow 😮 pic.twitter.com/2qpRmhTWZN
— Makho Ndlovu (@makhondlovu) November 25, 2019
T.I. was recently under fire for a controversial statement he made on a now-deleted episode of the Ladies Like Us podcast regarding his daughter. Here’s a refresher: The rapper claimed he accompanies his daughter, Deyjah Harris, to her annual gynecologist visits to “check her hymen” and ensure she is, in fact, still a virgin.
“I think people kinda took it extremely literal, because if you put any of my reputation — who I am as a father, who I been — I honestly thought people knew me better than that,” he said. “However, my intentions, I think, have been terribly misconstrued and misconceived.”
T.I says that Deyjah had “no objection” to him accompanying her, but she did have a problem with him expressing this information to the public. “I understand it and I am incredibly apologetic to her. Not to any of these other strangers or any of these weirdos who toss lies around for free,” he says, underlining his intentions of protecting rather than embarrassing her.
Watch interview below: