Tiffany Haddish defends Kevin Hart's over Oscars backlash: 'Nobody’s perfect'
'From my mistakes I have become a success and I learn not to make them again'
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Your support makes all the difference.Tiffany Haddish has defended Kevin Hart following the Oscars-related backlash against the actor
Haddish appeared alongside Hart in the comedy Night School last year. Since then, Hart has been at the recieving end of a backlash after homophiobic tweets from 2009 and 2010 were unearthed.
Speaking on to Lorraine Kelly, Haddish said that "nobody's perfect", and said the Academy were "tripping off of things that he said in his past that he already apologised for".
"I say a lot of things and I don’t apologise because I think before I speak, if I say it, I mean it," she said.
"Nobody’s perfect. From my mistakes I have become a success and I learn not to make them again."
Haddish has been promoting the film The Lego Movie 2, in which she voices the morphing character Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi.
Hart's initial now-deleted tweets that sparked the controversy included a post that reads: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay’.”
While the 39-year-old did not apologise for the remarks at first (he instead asked people to “stop searching for reasons to be angry”), he eventually said sorry to the LGBT+ community.
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