Jason Lee says Cardi B once called him out after he made offensive comments about Ariana Grande.
The media personality appeared on a recent episode of the podcast If You Knew Better with Amber Grimes. Near the six-minute mark in the video linked here, Lee was asked to share “one chaotic moment” where he may have done “too much.”
“There's been a few times I have crossed the line,” admitted Lee, 48. “I was in a podcast and I didn't have a lot of people around me that would say, ‘Damn, you shouldn't have said that.’ So I would just say anything I wanted. At the time, I just felt some type of way about Ariana Grande.”
Although Lee didn’t specify what exact comments he made about the “7 Rings” singer, he added, “What I said came off as misogyny—and it was. And the internet literally exploded.”
Lee, who initially thought he was just giving friendly advice, says it took Cardi B’s callout to realize his comments were uncalled for.
“It was Cardi B who called and just said like, ‘Nah, you crossed the line. You got to go back and fix that ‘cause that wasn't right. You're better than that,’” Lee recalled. “So although nobody was around me at the time I said it or edited it, it went out. Cardi was able to check me to go back and fix it. And so I looked at it [and] I'm like, you know, I got five sisters. I probably would have felt some way if somebody did that to my sister. I didn't need to deliver it that way. So I did go back and apologize.”
Lee said that he would make mistakes “many more times” due to the nature of live radio broadcasts, such as The Breakfast Club, where he recently appeared for an interview.
However, the Hollywood Unlocked founder admitted he doesn’t regret his comments about Grande.
He said, “Do I regret it? Nah, because I had to go through these experiences to learn the power of my platform, the power of the tongue, being responsible and owning it, right? And that it's OK to apologize when you cross the line, because people do want to see you're human and know you're not just an emotionless tree that don't care about other people's feelings.
“So yeah, I've made mistakes, but I've learned from them,” he concluded.
