Shannon Sharpe apologized to Megan Thee Stallion for a previous sexual “joke” he made about her on his podcast.
“Before we go any further, I want to apologize to you personally,” he told the Grammy-winning rapper on his “Club Shay Shay” podcast. “I always wanted to sit down and have a conversation with you I didn’t know if that was going to be possible but I was always hoping that I got an opportunity to bump into you.”
The former NFL star, 56, said he “told a joke” last year that he “said in jest” about what he would do to Megan, 29, in a sexual nature.
“I believe the joke would have been just as funny had I left you out of it,” he told her.Club Shay Shay/YouTube.
“I believe the joke would have been just as funny had I left you out of it,” he added. “So for any unwanted attention, harm, shame, embarrassment that I caused you or your family, I want to say, as a man as I sit here before you, I apologize.”
In response, the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper said she appreciated Sharpe’s apology.
The pair then raised a glass of Sharpe’s cognac, Shay by Le Portier, as he gave her flowers for her highly successful career.
Last November, the former Denver Broncos player told his “Nightcap” podcast co-host, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, that he would have Megan “stretched out like a quarter to three” and “do it to her three ways: deep, hard and continuously.”
After saying he was going to edit that segment out of the show, Shannon Sharpe said he would “open her up like saloon doors.”
In another podcast episode, the three-time Super Bowl champ made comments about the “Hiss” emcee’s famous backside, saying she was “stacked up like dirty laundry in a dorm room” and “fatter than a swamp-raised possum.”
The comments about Megan’s body did not sit well with some of her fans, who called the comments “wildly inappropriate” in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
“Love Shannon, but this is wildly inappropriate. He is employed by ESPN. They don’t play that, he needs to tone it down on these types of comments. It’s not the 90s anymore,” wrote one user.
“In light of all the lawsuits, I just want men to chill for a min. Like take a step back from the overt/public sex talk and stories and find something safe to chat about,” added another one.
“Giving perv vibes. Please go find something else to do cause this ain’t it,” said a third person.
The following day, Shannon Sharpe issued an apology, saying that he and Johnson, 46, would do a better job of “filtering” their conversations.
“I’ll tell you what. If Meg had any problem with anything that I’ve said, let me take the time to say I’m sorry, I apologize,” he said.