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ESPN's Cari Champion and Big Boi Had the Most Painfully Awkward Live Interview

ESPN's Cari Champion asked Big Boi a question about his dog Halle Berry during a live 'SportsCenter' interview, and his response shocked her.

Before Big Boi made an appearance on SportsCenter on Friday afternoon, ESPN anchor Cari Champion discovered that he has a dog named Halle Berry. So she decided to ask the only logical question that you would ask someone with a dog that goes by that name during her interview with him: "You got a dog named Halle Berry. Is she bad—or is she boujee?"

Totally fair question! Just one problem: Halle Berry is actually—sniffle—neither. Because, well, she's dead. So that led to this incredibly awkward exchange between Cari and Big Boi:

OMG. How painful was that?

And believe it or not, it actually got worse! Once the interview ended, Cari jumped on Twitter and acknowledged that the moment was awkward:

But she also sent out an "RIP Halle Berry" tweet that had more than a few people thinking that the real Halle Berry had died:

She eventually corrected herself by deleting that tweet and replacing it with this one:

But when she decided she was going to ask Big Boi a Migos-inspired question, she definitely didn’t expect it to backfire like that. Wow.

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