Piers Morgan Finds Out After F***ing Around With Jay-Z and Beyoncé's Reputations

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | October 9, 2024 |

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | October 9, 2024 |

Piers Morgan has apologized after a guest made ‘totally false’ claims about Jay-Z and Beyoncé on his YouTube channel.

Morgan is not a man who enjoys things like ethics, morality, or not being a total loser. His current show, which is a glorified YouTube channel after the network he was on went under, has mostly become known for airing examples of egregious clickbait and journalistic malpractice. He gave airtime to Richard Gadd’s alleged stalker and is the new go-to home for ‘cancelled’ accused sexual abusers like Kevin Spacey and Armie Hammer. Oh, and he’s still mad at Meghan Markle because he’s got nothing else going on in his life. There’s not much separating him from the likes of Tucker Carlson these days.

More recently, he’s latched onto the Sean Combs case as another way to spread feverish conspiracies. Morgan had singer Jaguar Wright on his channel to talk about the arrest of Combs last week. During their conversation, Wright made some comments about Jay-Z and Beyoncé. She called Jay-Z a ‘monster’ and alleged that the Carters have hundreds of victims, not unlike Combs. Making that kind of accusation in public is not going to end well unless you have hard evidence. For Morgan, it meant receiving a call from the Carters’ lawyers. And now, he has to apologize.

Morgan said (via Deadline:

‘Jaguar, unexpectedly, made several serious allegations about Jay-Z and Beyoncé during that interview. As I said in the moment, they were not present to respond or defend themselves, but now they have. Their lawyers contacted us to say that those claims were ‘totally false’ and have no basis in fact, and we’ve therefore complied with a legal request to cut them from the original interview.

Editing interviews is not something we do lightly at a show called Uncensored but like the proverbial cries of fire in a crowded theater, there are legal limits on us, too. And we apologize to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.’

It wasn’t an unequivocal apology, per se. Morgan still tried to claim that his platform is important because ‘pretty much everyone has a platform as long as they have something to say that other people want to hear. That’s why we invited [Wright] on to be interviewed. The people making these claims have an audience with or without shows like mine.’ Yeah, Piers, you’re a real beacon of hope in our dark world. You definitely care about Combs’ many victims and aren’t using this traumatic case as an excuse to get views.

This instance really highlights an ongoing issue regarding not only the Combs case but many high-profile instances of abuse and manipulation. What Combs did — and we have video of him doing it to his ex — is abhorrent. A lot of people spent decades sheltering this abuser because he made them money. This is a familiar pattern, from Harvey Weinstein to R. Kelly and beyond. There are countless victims who need our love, support, and justice.

They’re not going to get it from the likes of Piers Morgan and his slanderous guests. They’re also not going to get it from everyone who has turned the Combs story into an excuse to revel in conspiracies, smears, and outright lies. The amount of AI-generated crap on social media claiming to be ‘proof’ of Combs’ crimes is outrageous. Someone put a fake memoir on Amazon claiming to be the story of the late Kim Porter, Combs’ longtime partner, and it was only pulled when her children denounced it as a lie. By that point, it had already become an Amazon bestseller. The guy who published it, Todd Christopher Guzze, claimed he got a bunch of private information and tapes from someone close to Porter that he turned into this book. Todd also told Rolling Stone: ‘If somebody put my feet to the fire and they said, ‘Life or death, is that book real?’ I have to say I don’t know. But it’s real enough to me.’

As Craig Jenkins wrote for Vulture, the Diddy Discourse has largely become a battleground of conspiracies, hate, and gleeful memes. It’s muddied the waters of an already torrid story and abandoned empathy in favour of callous mockery. It sure does feel like a lot of people engaging in this tinhattery and self-congratulatory ‘well, I never lived Diddy’ crap care less about the victims than they do their own egos. If you really did believe that Combs abused Justin Bieber then why would you deliberately make AI-generated songs to ‘prove’ it?

Morgan has ‘apologized’ but the horse has already bolted out the gate. The conspiracies will only grow more intense from here on out. Those who truly believe that Beyoncé is part of a child sex ring will look at the Wright interview and claim her lawyers are silencing a whistleblower. Conspiracies are tough to undo because the goalposts for refutation are always moving and truth is optional.

And at the heart of this are hundreds of alleged victims who were let down by a broken and corrupt system that prized money over humanity. Talking about the tangled truth of that, however, is less smarmily satisfying than memes about baby oil.