Angela Simmons was fast to reply following backlash over her attention-grabbing accent on the 2024 BET Awards.
The self-proclaimed “Girl of God, Mother, Philanthropist” confirmed up on the crimson carpet on Sunday evening carrying a strapless inexperienced costume and carrying an identical, bedazzled purse within the form of a handgun. To drive that narrative dwelling, she did a number of poses throughout her crimson carpet picture op to match its form, holding it up and pointing the bag towards cameras.
This accent alternative rubbed numerous followers the mistaken approach not solely as a result of she was seemingly glorifying weapons, however due to her private historical past with gun violence. Angela’s ex-fiancé and the daddy of her 6-year-old little one, Sutton Tennyson, was fatally shot in 2018.
Customers flooded social media with their ideas concerning the accent, emphasizing how bizarre it’s for Simmons, particularly, to flaunt a gun-shaped accent like a toy.
Simmons didn’t wait lengthy to reply to the backlash, taking to Instagram to handle her trend alternative. Whereas she didn’t immediately handle the truth that the daddy of her little one, Sutton Tennyson died resulting from gun violence, she did insist that she’s not a “violent” particular person in any respect and easily thought that purse appeared “cool.”
The previous actuality star began off by saying that she doesn’t usually “handle rumors and stuff,” however she needs to clear up any implications that will have come along with her carrying such a bag.
“I’m not like that, by no means been like that. I’m tremendous…like, I’m not violent,” Simmons stated in a video posted to her Instagram Story. “I’ve clearly been by way of so much in my private life in terms of gun violence and it’s very private to me. However, I simply preferred the bag and I believed that it was cool and I believed it was a trend second and that was it.”
She continued, “I didn’t have any intentions of ruffling anybody’s feathers, it looks as if everybody–or a few folks–are slightly upset. However, I don’t imply no hurt. I’m tremendous, tremendous peaceable and yeah, I’m sorry if it bothered anybody, however that’s not me, that’s simply not how I’m.”