John Legend is Responding to a Paparazzo Calling Him a Monkey

Last week, Chrissy Teigen Tweeted about an incident that happened at JFK airport during which a Paparazzo asked her, “If we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?”

Paparazzi at JFK just asked me “if we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?” – and people wonder why celebs lose it in pics

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 19, 2017

In a video for Variety from the Sundance Film Festival, Legend is responding to the incident. “We were right next to each other and we looked at each other like, ‘Did he really just say that?’ And he really said it.”

“He basically called me a monkey,” @JohnLegend on a recent encounter at the airport. #Sundance #VarietyStudio presented by @OrvillePopcorn pic.twitter.com/lF42dRKlHz

— Variety (@Variety) January 23, 2017

“We saw with the former president, [Barack] Obama, whenever people wanted to discount him or discount his wife, they compared them to apes. And we’ve seen that frequently. I’m not hurt by someone saying that to me because I’m smarter, I’m stronger. I look down on that person that would say something like that.”

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