Nick Cannon has thoughts about the Nicki/Mariah feud
Things are getting cray! We thought the video of Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj getting into it behind the scenes at American Idol was absurd, but we're even more shocked that Nick Cannon would openly talk about the incident with Access Hollywood. He doesn't say anything mean of course, but still. We have to assume his publicist was having a stroke off camera.
"Of course I've heard about it," Cannon laughed this morning about the drama. "I feel like it's taking away from the quality of what Idol is all about." When it comes to placing blame, however, Nick isn't throwing Minaj or his own spouse under the bus. "I'm kind of disappointed in Fox and everything because they're taking away from the quality," Nick muses, even postulating that the show is courting the drama.
"Otherwise, how else would all of that stuff on TMZ?" he points out. Well, based on the footage it seems pretty clear who ever was taping the blow-out was doing so in secret. So our guess would be a newly unemployed AI staff member or crew member?
As if the tense shouting match everyone in America has seen by now wasn't enough, according to TMZ, Nicki Minaj allegedly made a violent threat toward Mariah during an unrecorded moment. "If I had a gun I would shoot her," the Pound The Alarm singer sniped. If that's true, you certainly don't see Carey react to it.
Explained Cannon, "My wife is the strongest and the classiest woman I've ever met. If you watch the video, she just maintains her composure. I don't think she's moved by the theatrics and pageantry of it all." We don't think so either!
And honestly, does anyone believe this is the first time two famous people got into a screaming fight behind the scenes? For all we know, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler were at each other's perfumed, scarf-adorned throats every day last year. There was just no video of it leaked to us normals. (VH1)
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