Jamie Foxx has been all over the internet since Monday, thanks to comments he made about Miley Cyrus over her alleged diss of Radiohead.
(Listen to the Foxx's crude comments here )
After hearing that the teen superstar threatened to ruin the careers of rockband Radiohead when they refused to meet with her backstage at the Grammys, Foxx went in on Cyrus, via his Sirius Satellite radio show "The Foxxhole," telling her to "grow up" and even going as far as saying she should take drugs like former teen stars Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and create a sex tape.
At just 16 years of age, his attack on Miley caused outrage all over the net. Longtime hip-hop genre basher, Bill O'Reilly, even chimed in on the situation on the "Pinhead" segment of his "O'Reilly Factor" news show on Fox.
"Cyrus is just 16 years old. Mr. Foxx should know better than to do something like that with his clown posse, so he's a pinhead, and he needs to wise up fast. 16 years old, ok?" Bill said.
Well, by now, Foxx has heard it. When he appeared on the "Jay Leno Show" on Tuesday night (April 14), Foxx admitted that he'd gone too far and offered young Miley an apology.
"Miley, I apologize. I'll call you," Jamie said, as he stared directly into the camera. "I so apologize to her. This is sincere because I am a comedian and you guys know that whatever I say, I don't mean any of it. Sometimes, as comedians as we do, we go a little bit too far.
"I have a radio show ... we're really the black Howard Stern. We go at everybody. But, there was a situation with Miley Cyrus, and I just wanna say I apologize for what I said. I didn't mean it maliciously. I'm a comedian," he continued.
While Foxx claims his comments were taken too seriously, calling them jokes, he acknowledged that they could be taken the wrong way and completely understands why.
"I got a daughter too, so I completely understand. This has really bothered me," he said, further explaining that things may have been taken out of context. "What we do on our radio show is completely blue. What they do is pluck it off the radio show, and they play it on the internet and make it seem like -- out of the blue -- I said these crazy things about this young girl. It's not like that. It's just jokes."
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