Jason Lee addressed the situation in a recent interview with VH1.
Here’s the excerpt:
So what was it that made you not respect her?
Hollywood is a small community. I’ve worked with and been friends with a lot of people that she’s been around and she’s burned a lot of my friends. And if I know that you’ve done bad to other people, and you’ve been involved in situations that are fraudulent, I know not to associate with you. I didn’t want to be affiliated with her or be around her, and it ended up that my first scene happened to be with her.
Do you have any examples of what you mean when you say she burned your friends?
Yeah, but some of them are celebrities and I’m not going to get into their personal business. She knows what she’s done. Unfortunately we didn’t get more time to resolve all of that, but those receipts aren’t hard to find in Hollywood.
There’s been a lot of backlash to the drink throwing, do you wish you handled that differently?
Absolutely not, I would have absolutely handled that differently. I have five sisters that I love dearly and it’s something that I regret, not because of the backlash — the backlash is all people that are peeking into our lives and they’re gonna love me or hate me regardless, that’s not what motivates the regret. For me, I allowed the situation to go too far. There was more to our conversation that led up to that moment, and eventually we will talk about it, and eventually I will address it, but I want to give Hazel the opportunity to face me and face America and [own up to] what she did that led up to that. There’s context missing from what you saw. Not to say that makes it okay, what I did, it is an unfortunate thing and a moment that I regret.
So there was one thing that triggered you and set you off?
Absolutely. And to be honest with you, had it been a man sitting across the table, based on what happened, there would have been a fight. But because it was a woman, I had to get out of there. I literally didn’t know what to do in that situation. Because I don’t want to go into all the details of what the audience didn’t see, and because I want to give Hazel the chance to own her part of what really happened, I don’t want to reveal all of that.
He’s still a b-tch for that.
Exactly.
I think what he did was uncalled for. Was he just mad he couldn’t shade fast enough?
He needs to humble himself and just admit he went after Hazel because he wanted the storyline and shine.
I wonder if this is the reason Hazel quit the show.
I think so. She ranted about it on Twitter before it even aired.
This will be unpopular: but gay men are still men. Throwing that drink was incredibly disrespectful and could be seen as abusive. He went in clearly ready for a fight & wanted his 15 mins… since he’s a friend of someone on the show- not ON the show. I am fully supportive of the LGBTQ movement, and have worked on their behalf in my state, but let’s not blur the line of appropriateness when it comes to how men should treat women.
Honey I’m a gay man and I agree with you!!!!!
Completely agree!
I don’t like his a-s. I can’t stand catty men.
LMAOOOOOO so we’re just not supposed to notice he didn’t throw that drink until she clocked him about not being the big time blogger he said he was? He was furious when she said he couldn’t even get a job at MTO. ???????????????
I don’t watch LHH but I seen that clip and that was f-cked up.
I can already see I’m not going to like this dude.
You should’ve seen his first blog. Full of pics with him and all these reality stars…you could tell he’s been trying to get a come up for a minute. All that named ripping he was doing like he’s big time when all he is, is a fan with a cameraphone.
You reap what you sow. He will get his.
He thought people would ride with him for doing it but now that he’s getting dragged on Twitter, he regrets it. Boy please.
Hmmmm I knew I wasn’t gonna like dude when he was in that scene wit Lil Fizz girl….he just seems like a bish…..in reality I believe Gay men really don’t like women because we are what they ultimately want to be. Anyway……he needs to keep it real and state that he was and will do anything for airtime
He needs his a-s whooped.
I’m disgusted. I hope this is his first and last season.
I’m so sick of these reality stars blaming everything on editing. Regardless of what was shown or not shown you knew you was being filmed, and you know Mona is thirsty therefore if nothing else that portion of the scene would be shown. Girl Bye!
He wouldn’t have done that to a man though.
Jason lee is a str8 B-TCH!!!!!! he did that to a woman because he no a man would beat his a-s there was no reason for him to do that she has the freedom of speech and he had no right to do that JASON LEE IS A B-TCH!!!!!!!