T.I. is addressing a controversy years later.
The 45-year-old rapper, who shares seven children with wife Tiny Harris, spoke out about 2019 remarks about how he’d take his daughter Deyjah, then 18 at the time, to a gynecologist to ensure her hymen was still intact and make sure she was still a virgin.
“This is the thing: Deyjah‘s 18, just graduated high school now and she’s attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself. And yes, not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen,” T.I. said while speaking with Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham on their podcast Ladies Like Us. The hosts naturally thought he was joking, but he doubled down that he was serious.
He later apologized for the comments that year, and is now reflecting on the controversy in a new interview.
“That sucked,” he said to People.
“When the podcast that the interview was on, when it first came out and everything happened, we experienced that as a family in real time, and it just happened to have been recorded,” he said, referring to the family’s reality TV show T.I. and Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle.
“By the time the episode or the season was finished and it came around to being aired, we’d already went through it, and the episode of the TV show was taking us back through it again.”
“Family Hustle was like our photo album. I can go back to see Major when he was 2. He’s on his way to college now. Or see ’Nique before she was able to drive. I can see all of my kids’ lives and rekindle those memories,” he went on to reflect.
Find out how he initially clarified the comments years ago.
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