Stephen A. Smith doesn’t assume it’s a coincidence that a number of lawsuits have been filed towards Shannon Sharpe after his viral interviews with Katt Williams, Mo’Nique, and extra.
The sports activities tv persona sat down for an interview with radio host Huge Boy, the place he addressed the continued sexual assault lawsuit filed towards Sharpe. Regardless of all the backlash, Smith is standing behind his First Take co-host, insisting there’s a purpose these allegations got here to mild after they did.
“Folks have been after him since he did Katt Williams,” Smith mentioned, referring to Sharpe’s viral interview, which presently sits at 89 million views on Youtube. “They’ve been at his neck due to the numbers he produced and the success that it had and the way he was capable of trip that wave.”
Although he acknowledged that public dialogue of the lawsuit is inevitable, Smith nonetheless criticized how some critics all through the media world have contributed to the dialog.
“I’m not speaking about what persons are speaking about and what they’ve to speak about, I’m speaking in regards to the zest with which they do it,” he defined. “You see a pleasure that some persons are having in going at him and that’s unhappy. You may discuss it, however we all know the distinction, when it comes to the flavour that you simply’re bringing to an equation the place you’re speaking about any person with glee and pleasure in your voice if you’re speaking in regards to the type of predicament they’re in. And that’s what I’ve obtained an issue with.”
Smith continued by talking on the impact that is having on First Take, saying: “To see the nice issues that he has been doing and to know the potential is on the market for all of this to be derailed, I’m extremely unhappy for him. I’m unhappy for us as a present ’trigger we’re higher with him than with out him, however proper now, it’s about him getting his home so as and doing what he can to get previous all of this.”
Shannon Sharpe has been accused of assault, sexual assault, battery, and sexual battery by a girl who filed a lawsuit as Jane Doe. The accuser claims she was subjected to repeated sexual assault and manipulation by Sharpe starting in 2023, when she was 19 years previous.
As for whether or not or not Smith thinks the occasions described within the lawsuit actually occurred, he wouldn’t say, although he did assert that the connection “appeared consensual” to him.
“None of us actually know, and it might be actually irresponsible to get into the trivialities of all of it as a result of we simply don’t know,’ Smith started. “However in the long run, if you see the small print that each events set free, it actually appeared consensual to me. However I’m not the courts. I’m not no matter. So I can’t actually contact it as a result of I’m actually not attempting to get sued.”
See Stephen A. Smith’s feedback in full throughout his interview with Huge Boy up above.
