Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard was one of the only people to defend Chris Brown over the whole hitting-Rihanna-in-the-face thing, which was sort of random and weird of Terrence. His words:
“It’s just life man. Chris is a great guy. He’ll be all right. Rihanna knows he loves her. They’ll be alright. Everyone has just got to get out of their way.”
That got a big “say what?” from everyone, and he immediately retracted it.
But then The Smoking Gun, because they’re awesome, smelled something fishy and lo and behold, Terrence Howard was arrested in 2001 for beating his now-estranged wife.
According to a Whitemarsh Police Department report, after Howard and Lori McCommas argued on the phone, the actor warned, “Don’t disrespect me by hanging up on me or I’ll come over and hurt you.” McCommas then “hung up and contacted 911 fearing Howard was serious.” While McCommas was speaking with a police dispatcher, Howard “showed up at the victim’s residence and began breaking the door down.” McCommas ran to the rear of the house and into the backyard. Howard then “broke the front door down and ran through the screen door in the kitchen. Howard then grabbed the victim’s left arm and punched her twice with a closed fist in the left side of the face.” The attack was broken up by Howard’s brother, who responded to McCommas’s house after he “saw Howard storm out of their house to go to the victim’s house.” When a Whitemarsh cop responded to the scene, Howard admitted, “I broke the door down and hit my wife.”
Anybody out there who isn’t a domestic abuser care to defend Chris Brown’s fists of fury?
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Wasn’t he nominated for an “Image” award in 2000, and then in 2002 also? Maybe it isn’t their fault after all. I blame those damn awards. Someone stop the madness!
“Image Awards don’t kill people, People kill people.”
“My Image Award beat up your honor student”
And so on.
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It’s just life man. Terrence is a great guy. He’ll be all right. His wife knows he loves her. They’ll be alright. Everyone has just got to get out of their way.
I love that his retraction basically said, “Well I didn’t know Chris hit Rihanna in the face. If I’d known that I wouldn’t have said “It’s just life”. What??
Terrence needs to get some help learning to lie from his parents, his pastor, a team of spin doctors, the hip-hop community, Oprah and Santa Claus.
I read this the other day on CB. And I couldn’t stop laughing.
Leave it the abuser to validate and enable Chris’s behavior.
I believe we can expect support for Chris Brown from Axl Rose, O.J. Simpson, and Robert Blake.
Imagine what happens when Terrance’s lady uses TP instead of baby wipes.
This IS the same Terrence Howard who gave an interview in which he stated that women who just used toilet paper weren’t clean enough for him; they had to use baby wipes. (If I can find a link to that, I’ll post it. If someone else finds it, please post it.) I think I originally read about that via a link from Tomato Nation. Terrence is an ass. Terrence needs to shut up, stop leaving his house, and learn to knit.
“Rihanna knows he loves her.”
because nothing screams “love” like the fist to the face…i bet the right side of terrence’s wife’s face felt utterly neglected. and unloved
I guess this is what Chris Brown meant when he called on his ‘homies’ or whatever to defend him. He wants other cowardly women beaters to come to his defense!! Yippee
And here I thought Crash was his first big hit! [ducks hail of rotten produce]
Not bad Simon. Painful but not bad
See, it’s things like this that make me wonder what passes for normal human thought among celebrities. These guys can say or do things like this and instead of stepping carefully away from the crazy, everybody continues giving them work. And people continue buying their product. It looks, to me, as though this sort of crap really is the coin of the realm in the entertainment industry, and that it only gets denounced when the attitudes behind it seep into public view and elicit a gasp. I mean, someone on these boards mentioned Josh Brolin beating the snot out of Diane Lane (I think) and that was the first I’d ever heard of it.
I don’t care who you are, what color you are, how much you make or what you look like: Some things are wrong. No, I don’t care if your culture says X or Y–it’s WRONG. Beating your spouse or SO is wrong. Brimming over with wrongability. Steeped in wrongness, coated in wrong, wringing wet with wrong juice. And you don’t get a pass if it’s how you grew up–you get therapy, or you get jail time, or at the very least you get the hell pounded out of you, if you pass it all on.
Terrence Howard is a douchebag, as is Chris Brown, and apparently they see each other at Douchebag Meetings, and both know the handshake. It’s quite a sizable club, it seems.
Coffee through the nose hurts Simon!
“it’s things like this that make me wonder what passes for normal human thought among celebrities”
Now that’s your problem right there Beige. Normal human thought and celebrities are antithetical.
These are people who play pretend for a living. Of course they’re not rational.
“I’m not a wife beater, I just play one on TV.”
Actually, no, it makes perfect sense. *Only* someone who abuses the person he (or she) is supposed to/claims to love could defend the actions of another person who does the same thing. Why? Because the rest of us–you know, the SANE people (some of us saner than others. I’m looking at you, Pasta. No, literally)–understand that you can’t say love with a right hook. It sounds perfectly normal to me that in a community (being the rap community, where the singers pride themselves on the abuse they can dish out) where abuse of the significant other is the standard activity, the knee-jerk response would be, in fact, “She knows he loves her. They’ll be OK.” Awful and yet it makes sense in its own twisted way.
HOLLY: Anybody out there who isn’t a domestic abuser care to defend Chris Brown’s fists of fury?
I’m sure it’ll be Whoopi, and she’ll use the same defense that they used for Michael Vick – that “it’s a cultural thing”, and he was raised to think it’s okay.
Fine – using the n-word could also be “a cultural thing” that some folks have been raised to think is okay. Would Whoopi be just as tolerant?
This is really disappointing. Now I have to add another douche bag to my list of celebrities to hate. All my pens are running out of ink cause of this crap.
Love Stan’s reply.
But I agree with Terrence. Nothing says I love you like a black eye. Except maybe two black eyes.
What? Simon stole the Crash joke.
Habanada, you have described an essence of human behavior – it’s easy to forgive someone of something (or, more accurately, I think, easier for it to “not be such a big deal”), if you yourself have done the same thing…murder, stealing, not paying taxes, illegal drug use, wife-beating, painted your house exterior mauve, et cetera. If someone murdered my mother, but I had murdered someone else’s mother previously, I’d think it’d be somewhat easier to shrug it off, even if I did love my momma a lot. But there I go, thinking again.
Case in point, Terrence.
Another case in point, a lot of us who have done our various misdeeds. We just have our different levels of misdeeds. “I may have done such and such, but at least I didn’t do THAT.”
How do you say “I love you” to a woman with two black eyes? You don’t, she’s already been told twice.
Awww….
i now see why terrence claims his ex is the love of his life and wants her back…he’s been abusive to her and she finally got the strength to leave his ass and not go back…i can’t stand these abusers….
@ StrawberryGirl
Don’t forget Bobby Brown, Charlie Sheen, Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke and all those I forgot to mention. Hollywood is a rougher neighbourhood than East LA
who is this guy, seriously??
@Simon Scowl
Awwww…brutal. *wipes snot-blasted keyboard*
Whoa…Robert “Sierra Club” REDFORD?!? WTF? He beat up a woman?
I guess it was all that creative, save-the-earth passion. Plus the fact that he’s a dick.
Rumor has it (I’m starting it BTW), Robert punched out Barbara S. because Babs stole his “green” stance and she’s more “enlightened” on the political front than he is and he couldn’t deal with it.
Personal thought, anybody how punches out women should be made to go 12 rounds with Stone Cold Steve Austin of MMA fame.
Er, maybe not the best example…
You’rew correct, but he’s the only one I could come up with. BTW, how can I get my comments to have the cool box like you get?
You have to be a sexy site ruler.
OOOOOHHHHH! Katy’s got a crush on Simon!
Katy and Simon,
sittin’ in a tree
K I S S I N G
1st comes love
Then comes marrage
Here comes Holly in a baby carrage.
John Edwards’ baby Frances Quinn turns one year old next Friday!
Will Silky Pony visit his baby on her first birthday?
Does Elizabeth Edwards’ new book mercilessly trash Rielle Hunter as a harlot bent on pursuing famous men? Does Elizabeth Edwards’ new book include a chapter about what happened when Rielle Hunter met Bill Clinton?!!!
Fortunate Son – Do you know of any juicy gossip about Elizabeth’s book – Bill Clinton and Rielle Hunter??
Swede, I don’t think there’s a single lady on this site who doesn’t have a crush on Simon
Sarcasm is the sexiest character trait.
So, Bob smacked Babs? Talk about cognitive dissonance…I’m disgusted with him for hitting a woman, but OTOH, since I’ll likely never get the chance to backhand her myself, it’s hard to condemn him. And IF it’s true that he got mad at her for ganking his lefty cred, that’s even funnier. It’s like, “No, I’M the tolerant, nonviolent one, BITCH!”
Oh, you’re so right.
Habanada, what about us married ladies?!?
And sarcasm is the sexiest character trait…as long as it’s not directed at me. Then, not so much.