Haddish dishes out biting scoop
We’re only a few months into 2018 and we already have the lead for wildest celebrity anecdote this year.
A GQ Magazine profile of comedian Tiffany Haddish published on Monday revealed a few things: She drinks turpentine, is a dream whale-watching companion and, um, witnessed an actress biting Beyoncé on the face.
Beyoncé fans – the Beyhive – went into high alert. Pop culture Twitter went bananas. Someone allegedly bit Beyoncé – considered a queen-like mega pop star – on the face. On the face. Like, on the face.
What a weird thing to happen to anyone. But Beyoncé? Utterly bonkers. The singer has such a tightly controlled image and is a pro at keeping her private life very private, showing snippets only on her terms. She manages to drop surprise albums without nary a song leaked in advance. Her 2016 visual album Lemonade, while her most revealing work to date, left fans guessing as to whether she was singing about her husband’s infidelity. Cheating rumours and missteps were pretty much confirmed the following year on Jay-z’s album 4:44.
That’s why the infamous elevator incident of 2014 was so shocking. The footage provided a rare, uncontrolled glimpse into the Carter-knowles world. (Beyoncé eventually alluded to the dramatic fallout in her music.)
Okay, but back to face-biting: According to Haddish, it happened during the after-party for a December Jay-z concert.
According to Haddish, at the party, an actress – who she wouldn’t name – was “just, like, doing the mostest.” This included biting Beyoncé, prompting the pop star to storm away, grab Jay-z and head to the back of the room.
“I was like, ‘What just happened?’” Haddish recalled. “And Beyoncé’s friend walked up and was like, ‘Can you believe this b***h just bit Beyoncé?’”
From the GQ story:
“And so then…,” she continues, “a lot of things happened.”
According to Haddish, she and the actress continued to cross paths throughout the night, culminating in a brief stand-off. The actress, at one point, told Haddish to stop dancing.
“And then Beyoncé and Jay-z walked by me, and I tapped Beyoncé.”
Haddish says she told Beyoncé, “I’m going to beat somebody’s a** at your party. I just want to let you know that.” Beyoncé asked her not to – told her to “have fun” instead. (Haddish leveraged this moment into a selfie with Beyoncé.)
“Near the end of the party,” says Haddish, describing her final run-in with Mrs Carter sometime later, “Beyoncé’s at the bar, so I said to Beyoncé, ‘Did she really bite you?’ She was like, ‘Yeah.’”
These new details on Monday prompted an army of amateur detectives to dive into action, sleuthing for whatever clues they could dig up and tweeting #Whobitbeyonce to identify the actress in question.
Chrissy Teigen tweeted: “I can only think of one person who would do this. but I cannot say. But she… is the worst.” She then tried to tamp down any suggestion of Gwyneth Paltrow, and then went back on her initial guess, hinting she knows the identity of the rumoured actress.
“Media Takeout is saying it was Taraji,” someone tweeted, referring to Taraji P Henson.
Haddish replied: “No it wasn’t.” – The Washington Post