Rather than bore you with the details, I’ll just be posting some (not all … way too many) of the things Isaiah said in a recent interview with NewsWeek. What is it gonna take for him to shut the eff up?! The first time, okay … you’re angry – totally understandable. The second time, yeah … let it all out! But continuing on, and on, and on, and on?? LET IT GO!!
ISAIAH ON THE FIGHT »
“Patrick and I had a philosophical disagreement that got out of hand and that I regret a great deal,” Washington says. “I said a lot of negative things that were never reported, but there was one word that caught everyone’s attention, particularly someone who wasn’t even in the room with us. It was a fight between two men that shouldn’t have happened. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. I see that now, but I didn’t then.”
ISAIAH ON GOING TO “REHAB”
“There is no rehab for homophobia—that was just some crap being put out by the network,” he says. ” I went into an executive counseling program which many people in this industry know about and go to. They knew what the program was but chose to call it what they wanted to fit their agenda. And more importantly, I volunteered for it because I wanted to understand my fight with Patrick and how it got out of hand like that. I wanted to know what I could do to avoid it happening again.”
ISAIAH ON THE “F” WORD
“Growing up in the South, I wasn’t exposed to as many different lifestyles and personalities as I could have been. And that’s always a problem, because the more you’re exposed, clearly the more you know and understand,” Washington says. “My mother had several cross-dressing friends who she sometimes referred to with names I’d never use, but she didn’t know any better. There was no hate, just lack of awareness.”
ISAIAH BEING … ISAIAH
“Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime,” he says. “I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that ‘some people’ were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I’m a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir’ and ‘No sir, massa’ to everyone? It’s nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family.’’
READ MORE FROM THIS HILARIOUS INTERVIEW OVER AT NEWSWEEK
