Snoop Dogg apologized to Gayle King

Hollywood is known for a lot of things. Glamorous movie sets. Star-filled restaurants. All of that terrible traffic. What it’s not known for is people admitting when they're wrong. Yet in a rare and somewhat admirable twist, Snoop Dogg has reached out to apologize to Gayle King for his harsh reaction to her bringing up rape allegations made against Kobe Bryant during a recently televised interview.“Gayle King, I publicly tore you down by coming at you in a derogatory manner based off of emotions, me being angry at questions that you asked. Overreacted. Should have handled it way different than that. I was raised way better than that. So I would like to apologize to you publicly for the language that I used and calling you out on your name and being disrespectful,” the rapper said in an Instagram video posted on February 12.“I didn’t mean for it to be like that. I was just expressing myself for a friend that wasn’t here to defend himself. A lot of people look up to me and they love me and they appreciate me, so I want to let them know that anytime you mess up, it’s okay to fix it, it’s okay to man up and say that you’re wrong.”

 

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Had a talk with my momma thank u mamma 2 wrongs don’t make it right time to heal @gayleking Peace n love Praying for u and your family as well as Vanessa and the kids

A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Feb 12, 2020 at 1:35pm PST

In case you missed it, Snoop Dogg took issue with King interviewing WNBA star Lisa Leslie about  Bryant, whose January 26 death in a helicopter crash shocked the world. In the interview, King brought up the 2003 allegations against Bryant of sexual abuse (which were dismissed), to which Leslie responded, “I think the media should be more respectful at this time. It’s like if you had questions about it, you’ve had many years to ask that.”The interview wound up going viral after CBS This Morning used the excerpt to promote it on social media, and King’s had a pretty rough time ever since. She posted her side of the story in an Instagram video shortly afterwards, but she still received plenty of criticism and even death threats over the situation. Last week Oprah even came out and revealed her bestie was “not doing well” with all of the hate.[video_embed id='1900296']RELATED: Who Snoop Dog spoke to before his public apology to Gayle King[/video_embed]Among those haters was Snoop Dogg, who posted a harsh attack on King via 50 Cent’s Twitter account on February 6, in which he told King to basically back off and stop trying to “tarnish my motherf--king homeboy’s reputation.” (There were a lot more salty language than that in the 50-second clip.)Then, on February 8, Snoop took to his Instagram account to post a second video in which he further clarified his comments, saying that he didn’t mean to sound threatening but that he was speaking out on behalf of those people who felt like King had been disrespectful towards Bryant and his family.“What I look like wanting some harm to come to a 70-year-old woman?” he said in the video (King is 65). “I was raised way better than that. I don’t want no harm to come to her and I didn’t threaten her, all I did was said, ‘Check it out, you outta pocket for what you doing and we watching you. Have a little more respect for Vanessa, her babies and Kobe Bryant’s legacy.’”It's not 100 per cent clear what changed the rapper’s tune and made him apologize in that third video (his mother may have had something to do with it), but whatever the reason he’s taking a page out of Kobe Bryant’s own playbook. As Rose McGowan, the wallflower that she is (not), pointed out on her own social media feed, the reason Bryant became a hero is because he learned the art of the apology.

You want to know why Kobe Bryant is a hero? He apologized to a hurt young woman. Snoop & others it’s time to stop terrorizing @gayleking & @feliciasonmez Truth hurts. Death hurts. Grow the fuck up. Kobe stopped hurting women, so can you pic.twitter.com/EEkg6u1HNM

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) February 9, 2020

King has yet to respond on her own social media feeds, but maybe this will be the end of all the strife. After all, Bryant was a lover and not a hater—fans can probably all agree that the last thing he’d want is for people to beef over his death.[video_embed id='1618260']One last thing: This squeaky shower sounds just like Snoop Dogg's 'Drop it Like it's Hot'[/video_embed]