Although he's a decorated actor that's most known as Ghost on the hit-series Power, Omari Hardwick recently caught the wrath of the internet when he was seen embracing Beyoncé at this years NAACP Awards, complete with a hug and a double kiss right next to her husband JAY-Z.
Now Hardwick has started to discuss the infamous moment in recent interviews, where most recently he sat down with Hot 97 and somewhat cryptically explained why he embraced the iconic star the way he did.
“Celebrity has become the seller of a person’s person," Hardwick said in the interview, "Now that Omari is more of a celebrity from the moment I met Ebro, it’s not that it was just Beyoncé it’s that Omari is bigger."
To emphasize the point that his own celebrity helped amplify the moment in the media, he added "if somebody else who’s not as big hugs Beyoncé, I don’t know," before adding that "Jay would have slapped me upside the head if I didn’t like ‘damn n**** didn’t you see B? Go give her a hug.'"
Hardwick then said about Beyoncé: "That’s a woman that reached out to me, I don’t know, one in the morning once and said, ‘I’m doing a surprise birthday for Jay, you gotta be there.’ That’s a friend.”
From there, Hardwick shifted the conversation to be about today's social media era where everyone has a microphone, ultimately insinuating that he didn't care for the criticism surrounding his #KissGate with Beyoncé.
Source: Hot97
