Piers Morgan has apologized after platforming “completely false” claims about Jay-Z and Beyoncé on his YouTube channel.
Morgan interviewed Jaguar Wright about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest on his Uncensored present final week. Through the trade, the singer referred to as Diddy and Jay-Z “monsters” and alleged that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have lots of of victims.
Throughout an Uncensored episode on Tuesday, Morgan opened the present by revealing that he had acquired a authorized letter from the couple, during which they refuted the allegations. The previous CNN anchor apologized and stated Wright’s interview was edited to take away her claims.
Morgan stated: “Jaguar, unexpectedly, made a number of critical allegations about Jay-Z and Beyoncé throughout that interview. As I stated within the second, they weren’t current to reply or defend themselves, however now they’ve. Their legal professionals contacted us to say that these claims have been ‘completely false’ and don’t have any foundation in truth, and we’ve due to this fact complied with a authorized request to chop them from the unique interview.”
“Modifying interviews just isn’t one thing we do evenly at a present referred to as Uncensored however just like the proverbial cries of fireside in a crowded theater, there are authorized limits on us, too. And we apologize to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.”
He added: “The factor about platforms, the truth of the fashionable world is that just about everybody has a platform so long as they’ve one thing to say that different folks need to hear. That’s why we invited [Wright] on to be interviewed. The folks making these claims have an viewers with or with out exhibits like mine.”
