Method Man Apologizes to Destiny’s Child for 2001 Snub: ‘That S– Hurt My Heart’
thewrap.com“My Expert Opinion” podcast that he dissed the group because he thought they had snubbed him first, and that he’s regretted it ever since.In 1999, he had what he called a “cordial” meeting with Destiny’s Child when the group still had four members.
But things didn’t go so well when he ran into the group — now comprised of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams — at Janet Jackson’s “MTV Icon” special in 2001.“I see the girls, and so, you know, I kind of moseyed out of my seat to go and say what’s up to them,” he told Hoffa. “Now, this is me still in my low self-esteem era.
I go over to say hi to them, and when I said hi, they didn’t even turn around and acknowledge me. Now, my a— in my head with my low self-esteem is like, ‘Oh, they just s— on me.’ When in fact they didn’t even hear me, it was so loud in [there].
And that’s the excuse that I’m giving right now.”When he had a chance to meet them again through a mutual friend, he chose to return the perceived snub. “They put their hands out to shake, and I kept my hand here and was like, ‘Go ahead with that Hollywood s—,” a decision he says has “hurt his heart” ever since.“I felt like they wasn’t treating me like I should’ve been treated.
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