Crime
I exaggerated, rapper T.I says as he clarifies daughter’s virginity test claim
American rapper T.I has defended himself following the uproar and backlash generated by his claim that he takes his daughter to the doctor regularly to check if she is still a virgin.
Earlier this month the musician caused outrage on social media when he admitted that he accompanies his 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah Harris, to the gynaecologist to make sure her ‘hymen is still intact.’
In a new interview, T.I claims the examination happened when Deyjah was a younger teenager, and he exaggerated the story for comedic effect, the Mirror UK reports.
Speaking to Jada Pinkett Smith on the latest episode of Red Table Talk, he said:
“First of all, I came to clear up any misconceptions there have been surrounding how we parent and what is appropriate and inappropriate.”
He went on:
“I think all of this comes from a conversation I was having in a very joking manner when asked how I deal with parenting in this day and age.
“From a place of truth, I began to embellish and exaggerate and I think a lot of people took it extremely literal because if you put any of my reputation, who I am as a father, who I’ve been, I honestly thought people knew me better than that.”
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T.I. continued:
“I never said I was in any exam room, that was an assumption.
“That is a falsity. I never said it was being done present day as an 18 year old.”
He also said that her mum was at the examination, which happened when she was around 15-years-old.
T.I. said he was regretful that he had told everyone about it, but he still defended his actions.
He said:
“In the age and the time, our women, black women, are the most unprotected, unattended, disregarded women of the planet.
“I’m being criticized because I’m willing to go above and beyond to protect mine and I’m talking about all the little slimy, grimey, chubby-fingers little boys who want to just come and defile and destroy the sanctity that I have …”
T.I. had said Deyjah had signed a waiver that allows the doctor to share information with her dad, including whether her hymen is broken.
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