Snoop Dogg overcame his horse phobia with motivation from good friend Martha Stewart.
On The Jennifer Hudson Show earlier this week, the rap legend revisited his NBC hosting duties for the Paris Summer Olympics, where he and Stewart had a horse encounter.
"I was afraid of horses because you can't talk to them, you can't tell them to sit, to go, so I was scared of them. But my good friend, Martha Stewart, she broke that," he said around the one-minute mark of the video below.
Snoop recalled that it was a certain food that allowed him to be more comfortable with the species.
"It was a carrots," he said. "She was like, 'Give him carrots,' so I gave him carrots and he was eating it. Then he tried to bite my hand. I'm like, 'Hold on, cuz."
But the "Another Part of Me" rapper expressed that he and the horse "got real close."
"So I understand the horse's mentality now so and their hair game is exceptional, the way they braid their hair," he said.
In October, Stewart spoke to People about the "stir" that she and Snoop caused during Olympic festivities, along with how the rapper has grown fond of horses.
"Getting Snoop to actually touch a horse—he's been deadly afraid of horses his whole life—and he actually got to love it," she said. "I offered him a stall in my barn and so if he finds a horse that he likes, he can put the horse in my barn and we'll take care of it for him."
In 2023, Snoop told Tiffany Haddish about his "serious" horse fear on GGN News, joking that he might've been "the Headless Horseman" in a past life.
