Jason Lee typically doesn’t mince words when it comes to giving his unfiltered opinions as a pop culture critic. However, he realizes there are times he crossed the line, one of those being his offensive remarks about Ariana Grande, which his close friend, Cardi B, called him out for.
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The Hollywood Unlocked founder joined If You Knew Better with Amber Grimes on May 14, where Lee recalled a time he overstepped his boundary with his criticism.
“There’s been a few times I have crossed the line. 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,” he said.
The 48-year-old revealed it was Cardi B who checked him and put him in his place, which made him take a step back and reconsider his words.
“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.’ So although nobody was around me at the time I said it or edited it, it went out,” he explained.
Lee continued: “Cardi was able to check me to go back and fix it. And so I looked at it, 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.”
Jason Lee didn’t offer up exactly what he was referring to about the “7 Rings” singer, but he’s possibly alluding to a viral clip from early 2019, which found him making extremely offensive comments including comparing her looks to “an underage piece of meat.”
“You chose to be friends with Nicki Minaj and clearly you pick losers,” he said. “And third of all, if I ever see you on an award show opening your legs up during a performance like you Beyoncé — girl you look like R. Kelly’s snacks you need to stop. She looks like an underage piece of meat ready to be p-ssed on by Robert.”
The former Wild ‘N Out star added: “If you’re f—ing Ariana Grande, you want to f–k little kids, for sure. She is not a woman. That is not a woman, that’s a little girl.”
Lee explained that he doesn’t regret his comments, but used them as a learning experience going forward. “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,” he said. “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.”
Watch the entire interview below. Find Jason Lee’s comments about Ariana Grande and Cardi B around the six-minute mark.
