June 29, 2025
Accoding to Palmer, her podcast manufacturing crew determined to shelve the episode and changed it with an interview with rapper Kash Doll.
In a current look on Energy 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Membership” radio present, actress, singer, and podcast host Keke Palmer opened as much as Charlemagne tha God and crew relating to the choice by the producers of her podcast, “Child, This Is Keke Palmer,” to drag an episode that includes “Journal Goals” actor Jonathan Majors, a call she didn’t appear to agree with.
In keeping with Selection, when the Breakfast Membership crew broached the subject of her interview with Majors that by no means dropped, Palmer mentioned that she believed that having Majors on and having the dialog, which was recorded throughout his press run for “Journal Goals,” meant that she was being goal.
“I’m right here to be unbiased,” Palmer mentioned. “You don’t agree with every little thing they did, you don’t love every little thing, however you bought to have the dialog. It’s a must to set the stage for them to talk and for folks to observe and take what they wish to take from it, in order that’s why I used to be open and excited to do the interview.”
She continued, explaining that the manufacturing crew behind her podcast made the choice to shelve the episode and changed it with an interview with rapper Kash Doll.
Palmer mentioned that the cancellation of the episode was “based mostly off of the response” that got here after it was introduced that Majors would seem on her podcast, earlier than persevering with additional.
“Folks felt it was insensitive. I at all times wish to be respectful and perceive the place all people’s coming from. In the event that they’re not going to really feel like they’re going to obtain something good from the interview, then okay, cool. However I sat down with the brother for us to speak and let him be heard. I imply, folks sit down with serial killers,” Palmer mentioned.
Shortly, she adjusted, conscious that it would come off as if she was evaluating Majors to a serial killer, closing her feedback by persevering with to precise hope that the episode would possibly at some point see the sunshine of day.
“I’m not evaluating him to a serial killer,” Palmer continued. “On the finish of the day, I felt as a journalist, I’m supposed to speak and let the general public determine how they wish to really feel. However that didn’t get an opportunity to occur. I want all of them the most effective. I actually wish to say that as a result of I don’t decide no one as a result of I don’t wish to be judged. So on the finish of the day, I’m glad for Meagan. I’m glad for them. Perhaps at some point, we get an opportunity to place [the podcast interview] out. I’m unsure.”
Majors was on a trajectory to grow to be Hollywood’s subsequent main man after his roles in “The Final Black Man in San Francisco,” “Lovecraft Nation,” and a very menacing function in Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III.” Marvel additionally tapped him to play the function of a villainous time-traveling despot, Kang the Conqueror, and was constructing out the again half of its Section 5 and Section 6 slate of movies across the character, which was first launched within the Marvel authentic sequence Loki.
Nevertheless, as soon as Majors was accused of and located responsible of assault and harassment in a home violence case introduced by his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, Marvel dropped him and “Journal Goals” struggled to discover a extensive launch.
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