by Daniel Johnson
June 29, 2025
Accoding to Palmer, her podcast manufacturing group determined to shelve the episode and changed it with an interview with rapper Kash Doll.
In a current look on Energy 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Membership” radio present, actress, singer, and podcast host Keke Palmer opened as much as Charlemagne tha God and crew relating to the choice by the producers of her podcast, “Child, This Is Keke Palmer,” to tug an episode that includes “Journal Desires” actor Jonathan Majors, a choice she didn’t appear to agree with.
In response to Selection, when the Breakfast Membership crew broached the subject of her interview with Majors that by no means dropped, Palmer mentioned that she believed that having Majors on and having the dialog, which was recorded throughout his press run for “Journal Desires,” meant that she was being goal.
“I’m right here to be unbiased,” Palmer mentioned. “You don’t agree with all the things they did, you don’t love all the things, however you bought to have the dialog. It’s important to set the stage for them to talk and for individuals to look at and take what they need to take from it, in order that’s why I used to be open and excited to do the interview.”
She continued, explaining that the manufacturing group behind her podcast made the choice to shelve the episode and changed it with an interview with rapper Kash Doll.
Palmer mentioned that the cancellation of the episode was “based mostly off of the response” that got here after it was introduced that Majors would seem on her podcast, earlier than persevering with additional.
“Folks felt it was insensitive. I all the time need to be respectful and perceive the place all people’s coming from. In the event that they’re not going to really feel like they’re going to obtain something good from the interview, then okay, cool. However I sat down with the brother for us to speak and let him be heard. I imply, individuals sit down with serial killers,” Palmer mentioned.
Shortly, she adjusted, conscious that it’d come off as if she was evaluating Majors to a serial killer, closing her feedback by persevering with to precise hope that the episode may at some point see the sunshine of day.
“I’m not evaluating him to a serial killer,” Palmer continued. “On the finish of the day, I felt as a journalist, I’m supposed to speak and let the general public resolve how they need to really feel. However that didn’t get an opportunity to occur. I want all of them the perfect. I actually need to say that as a result of I don’t decide no one as a result of I don’t need to be judged. So on the finish of the day, I’m completely satisfied for Meagan. I’m completely satisfied for them. Perhaps at some point, we get an opportunity to place (the podcast interview) out. I’m unsure.”
Majors was on a trajectory to grow to be Hollywood’s subsequent main man after his roles in “The Final Black Man in San Francisco,” “Lovecraft Nation,” and a very menacing position in Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III.” Marvel additionally tapped him to play the position of a villainous time-traveling despot, Kang the Conqueror, and was constructing out the again half of its Section 5 and Section 6 slate of movies across the character, which was first launched within the Marvel authentic collection Loki.
Nonetheless, as soon as Majors was accused of and located responsible of assault and harassment in a home violence case introduced by his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, Marvel dropped him and “Journal Desires” struggled to discover a huge launch.
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