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Nick Cannon, who was fired by ViacomCBS this week for making anti-Semitic comments on his podcast, posted troubling tweets early Friday morning. “I hurt an entire community and it pained me to my core, I thought it couldn’t get any worse,” Cannon tweeted. “Then I watched my own community turn on me and call me …
Nick Cannon, who was fired by ViacomCBS this week for making anti-Semitic comments on his podcast, posted troubling tweets early Friday morning.
“I hurt an entire community and it pained me to my core, I thought it couldn’t get any worse,” Cannon tweeted. “Then I watched my own community turn on me and call me a sell-out for apologizing. Goodnight. Enjoy Earth.”
He added, “Y’all can have this planet. I’m out!” The messages marked his location as “heaven.”
On a recent episode of “Cannon’s Class,” the comedian interviewed rapper Professor Griff, who was briefly kicked out of Public Enemy in 1989 over anti-Semitic comments.
Cannon suggested on the podcast that his ouster from the group had been unfair because Griff had been “speaking facts.”
Y’all can have this planet. I’m out!
— Nick Cannon (@NickCannon) July 17, 2020
Cannon also referred to persistent conspiracy theories about Jewish banking family the Rothchilds, and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who is known for his anti-Semitic remarks.
ViacomCBS — which owns MTV and TeenNick and has had a decades-long relationship with Cannon — let him go on Wednesday, saying that it wouldn’t tolerate “hateful speech.” He had been the chairman of TeenNick and hosted MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out.”
Cannon apologized on social media the same day, saying, “First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with [Professor Griff].”
He added, “They reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people and I feel ashamed of the uninformed and naïve place that these words came from.”
It’s not the first time Cannon has raised fears for his wellbeing amid a scandal. In 2017, he suddenly quit “America’s Got Talent,” and fired his longtime advisers, Page Six exclusively reported at the time. The star had recently spent time in a hospital for complications related to lupus and had posted online about depression and “pain.”
Fox is keeping him on as the host of “The Masked Singer.”
