“The View” co-host Joy Behar has finally come clean about wearing blackface after trying to deny the scandal ever happened during the same interview.
Behar performed a feat of mental gymnastics in a new Time Magazine interview where she admitted to dressing as a “beautiful African woman” for a Halloween costume.
She initially tried to deny ever wearing blackface, only to come clean later in the same interview and admit it was “offensive.”
Behar caused a backlash in 2016 when she showed the photo on “The View” during a segment talking about the resurgence of natural hair.
Asked how old she was in the photo, she replied, “I was 29.
“It was a Halloween party,” she added.
“I went as a beautiful African woman.”
In the new Time interview, published Wednesday, Behar was asked about her balckface scandal.
She said: “You have a power when you have that microphone.
“People don’t like it,” she claimed.
“They don’t like it that I’m a powerful person on ‘The View,’ saying things that they don’t like, but I’m sorry, that is where I’m at.
“I’m a powerful person on ‘The View’,” she gloated.
“I was a powerful person as a comedian holding a microphone. Too bad.
“This whole idea of canceling people for what they say, I’d say the answer to that is, ‘What was your intention?’
“Everything that I got into trouble for was not intentional.”
Behar then attempted to deny wearing blackface.
“For me, it was like, ‘Look at how pretty I can look as a woman dressed like this,” she claimed.
“It wasn’t anything close to blackface.
“It was bronzer, which I used with my natural curly hair.
“And the black community had my back because they understand what blackface is.
“And then all of a sudden, that picture became verboten.”
After the interview, however, The View’s publicist sent the reporter a clean-up comment from Behar:
“I would never do that now. I understand it’s offensive,” she said.
This joy behar lectures Tim Scott. Black face joy behar. Hmmmmmm pic.twitter.com/2iaZJzVeM3
— John A. (@jalb138) April 29, 2021
