T.I. has commented about his controversial statements regarding his daughter’s hymen.
“I came to clear up any misconceptions that have been surrounding how we interact and parent and what is appropriate and inappropriate,” T.I. said on Jada Pinkett Smith‘s “Red Table Talk.” “I think all of this surrounds a conversation that I was having in a very joking manner, when asked how do I deal with parenting in this day and age. And so I just began to, you know, from a place of truth, I began to embellish and exaggerate.”
“And I think that a lot people kind of like took it extremely literal, because if you put any of my reputation about like who I am as a father, who I’ve been, I honestly thought people knew me better than that,” T.I. adds.
In early November, the rapper said on the “Ladies Like Us” podcast that he goes to the gynecologist with his 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah Harris, in order to “check her hymen.”
“Have I? We go…Deyjah’s 18, just graduated high school, now she’s attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself,” T.I. said. “And, yes, not only have we had the conversation…we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.”
“I said, ‘Look doc, she don’t ride no horses, she don’t ride no bike, she don’t play no sports, man, just check the hymen please and give me back my results, expeditiously,” T.I. recalled, laughing. “But I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.”
T.I.’s comments sparked outrage on social media, with celebs like Chrissy Teigen and Iggy Azalea sharing their reaction to his statements.
“Ladies Like Us” hosts Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham released a statement apologizing for their reaction to T.I.’s comments on the episode.
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