T.I. Clears 'Disgusting' Comments Made On Daughter's Hymen

An outrage was caused over a couple of weeks ago when rapper T.I. aka Clifford Joseph's comments about his daughter's 'hymen' gained attention for all the wrong reasons. 

In early November, the 39-year-old rapper said on the Ladies Like Us podcast that he goes to the gynecologist with his 18-year-old daughter, Deyjah Harris, in order to "check her hymen." The eyebrow-raising conversation started when T.I. was asked if he's "had the sex talk" with his daughters.

"Have I? We go...Deyjah's 18, just graduated high school, now she's attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself," T.I. said. "And, yes, not only have we had the conversation...we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen."

However, after all this, T.I. has come forward to talk about it sitting down with his wife Tiny on Jada Pinkett Smith's latest Red Table Talk episode. 

"I came to clear up any misconceptions that have been surrounding how we interact and parent and what is appropriate and inappropriate," T.I. starts off by saying in the episode. "I think all of this surrounds a conversation that I was having in a very joking manner when asked how do I deal with parenting in this day and age. And so I just began to, you know, from a place of truth, I began to embellish and exaggerate."

"And I think that a lot of people kind of like took it extremely literal because if you put any of my reputation about like who I am as a father, who I've been, I honestly thought people knew me better than that," T.I. adds. 

T.I. shares with Jada that he didn't understand the sensitivity surrounding the topic, but he "absolutely" understands it now.

"However, my intentions I think have been terribly misconstrued and misconceived," T.I. says. "Let me go set this record straight, I never said I was in any exam room, that is an assumption, that is a falsity. I never said that it was being done present day as an 18-year-old...and I never said that her mother wasn't present. Her mom was present every time."

T.I. goes on to say that this "false narrative" has been "sensationalized."