Keke Palmer Pulled That Jonathan Majors Interview Cause You Got Mad

Jonathan Majors deserves no comeback. The disgraced actor was found guilty of assault and harassment against his ex-partner, Grace Jabbari. You’re not someone who believes in the court system? Here’s audio of the man admitting to his wrongdoing. It’s horrendous, and you shouldn’t have to listen to it, but there are people out there who keep acting like Majors made a little oopsie. He’s attempting to rehabilitate his image, and folks are just gulping it down like water in a heatwave. One of those people was (and still is?) Keke Palmer.

Palmer is a force to be reckoned with. She rules, and I’d much rather be talking about her Burbs remake or fan-casting her in a Mike Flanagan show that may never get made. Her career is long, full, and will continue to grow. Keke is an actor, singer, host, and the kind of personality that lights up any interview she’s a part of, on either side. But I would never consider Keke Palmer a journalist. She isn’t one. That’s okay! She does everything else. She doesn’t have to be a journalist. But apparently, she considers herself one.

I know that because she said as much in a recent episode of The Breakfast Club. While on the show, Palmer was asked about an interview she had conducted with Jonathan Majors on her podcast, Baby, This Is Keke Palmer. That interview was never released, because people were rightfully pissed that she even did it. Not only because Majors does not deserve the attention, but because Palmer has been open about domestic violence claims she made against her former partner, Darius Jackson. She made those claims the same year Jabbari did. Why would she then platform an abuser?

People are allowed to make mistakes, and Palmer pulled the interview, which was the right move. It should have ended there. Instead, she discussed the decision on The Breakfast Club and made things worse. “When I’m doing my hosting, I’m here to be unbiased. Everybody that sits in your chair, you don’t agree with everything they did, you don’t love everything, but you gotta have the conversation,” Palmer explained. “You have to set the stage for them to speak and for people to watch and take what they wanna take from it, so that’s why I was open and excited to do the interview.” Majors already spoke, Keke, and it was bad. Also, talking to a bad person doesn’t make you unbiased.

The decision to pull the episode was made after everyone’s reactions, which is, arguably, too late. But they still did it, with Palmer saying, “ultimately, with my partners, it was just decided — they saw the reaction that people felt it was insensitive, that maybe we shouldn’t put it out.” In other words, they didn’t want everyone to get even more mad at them. But don’t worry, the interview is still in the can. “It’s always there, if people wanted to see it,” she noted. “But I always wanna be respectful and understand where everybody’s coming from. If they’re not going to feel like they’re going to receive anything good from the interview, then okay, cool.”

She could have stopped there, and it just would have been tone deaf, but she kept going! Palmer had to defend her decision, I guess! “I mean, people sit down with serial killers,” Palmer said in a whiplash-inducing move. “I’m not comparing him to a serial killer, but at the end of the day, I felt like, as a journalist, I’m supposed to talk and we’re supposed to hear and let the public decide how they want to feel. But that didn’t get a chance to happen.” Keke, you are not a journalist; you have a podcast! You don’t get to hide under that umbrella just because you interview people.

Again, bad, but at least kind of remorseful? Like, she’d never try to release the interview, right? Wrong! She went on to say that “maybe one day we get a chance” to get the interview out there and become a firm part of the convicted abuser’s redemption tour. She then wished him and his wife, Megan Good, “all the best,” saying, “I really wanna say that because I don’t judge nobody ‘cause I don’t want to be judged. So at the end of the day, I’m happy for Meagan. I’m happy for them.” Keke, come on! He admitted to strangling Grace! He does not deserve your well wishes, nor an interview, nor praise. He was actually judged by a judge and convicted of a crime. You made a mistake, but these mental gymnastics are not helpful.