David Cross Doesn’t Remember Saying Racist Stuff To Charlyne Yi
Get the Full StoryOctober is turning into the month of honesty sorry Halloween, take a lap and the most recent moment of honesty came from actress Charlyne Yi. On Monday, Charlyne told a story on Twitter about the first time she met comedian David Cross. It wasn’t a great meeting, and Charlyne alleges that David made her feel shitty with some racist comments. David responded by saying that he’s sorry, but he doesn’t remember that happening.Charlyne’s meeting with David Cross happened when she was 20 she’s now 31 and he was about 42 he’s now 53 . David led off with a crack about her poor people pants. Oooh, excuse you David Cross, we don’t all have Chimpmunks money. Then it got ugly. Charlyne is of Filipino and Korean decent as well as other backgrounds , and she says all he saw was “Asian,” and made a couple of Mr. Yunioshi-like jokes.
I think about the first time I met David Cross ten years ago & he made fun of my pants that were tattered because I was poor . Dumbfounded I stared at him speechless and he said to me "what's a matter? You don't speak English?? Ching-chong-ching-chong".
— Charlyne Yi charlyne_yi October 16, 2017
Then after he saw I was offended he asked me if I was going to fight with him karate in a southern accent. Then a few years later he was re-introduced to me after my comedy show with his girlfriend at the time & he said "Hi nice to meet you".
— Charlyne Yi charlyne_yi October 16, 2017
HOWEVER it is very uncool that a 40 man was being racist towards me, being a young 20 year old woman who was clearly on the verge of tears from his first racist comment.
— Charlyne Yi charlyne_yi October 16, 2017
David Cross responded to Charlyne’s tweets yesterday with a little explanation of what he thinks happened ten years ago. David is sorry and claims he sincerely doesn’t remember meeting her. And while he doesn’t accuse Charlyne of lying, he wonders if they’re both remembering the meeting wrong.
Adressing the Charlyne Yi tweet below. pic.twitter.com WMHxH6lZco
— David Cross davidcrosss October 18, 2017
Rashomon is Japanese. Charlyne isn’t Japanese. So at the very least, David might want to brush up on what Asian thing belongs to what Asian culture. Although I can see that being an awful lot of work for someone who could only manage to spell Charlyne’s name right once in his apology.
Pic: Wenn.com
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