Snoop Dog apologizes to Gayle King for Kobe rant: ‘Two wrongs don’t make it right’

Summer Lin
·2 min read

Snoop Dogg has apologized to CBS News anchor Gayle King for comments he made after she brought up Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault allegations during an interview.

The rapper posted an Instagram video addressed to King and wrote in the caption, “Praying for u and your family as well as Vanessa and the kids.”

“Two wrongs don’t make no right,” Snoop said in the video. “When you’re wrong, you gotta fix it.”

King brought up Bryant’s 2003 rape charge duringan interview with WNBA player Lisa Leslie, asking, “It’s been said that his legacy is complicated because of a sexual assault charge which was dismissed. .... Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?”

Bryant was charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in 2003, but the case was dismissed because the accuser wasn’t willing to testify, according to The New York Times.

Snoop called King a “funky dog head b—h” and said she was trying to “tarnish my motherf—g homeboy’s reputation.” He also told King: “Respect the family and back off, b—h, before we come get you.”

In his apology video, Snoop said he “publicly tore down” King and came at her in a “derogatory manner” and “overreacted.” He also said he was angry because Bryant couldn’t defend himself against the allegations.

“I was raised better than that,” he said. “I would like to apologize to you publicly for the language that I used and calling you out of your name and just being disrespectful.”

King responded to the backlash over her questions about Bryant, saying she’s “embarrassed” and “mortified.”

“I’ve been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant,” she said in an Instagram video. “I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too. I am mortified, I am embarrassed and I am very angry.”

Bryant, a longtime star with the Los Angeles Lakers, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in a helicopter crash last month in Calabasas, Calif.