‘The Breakfast Club’ co-host once again apologized to the ‘Who TF Did I Marry’ TikTok series creator — this time to her face.
Key Takeaways
- Charlamagne Tha God apologized directly to Reesa Teesa on The Breakfast Clubfor contributing to online criticism with his 2024 “big back behavior” remark.
- Reesa thanked him and said online reactions amplified the hurt, acknowledging he described her behavior rather than her body while stressing that “words matter.”
- The Who TF Did I Marry? creator appeared on the show to promote her book What (TF) Do I Do Now?: Reclaiming Myself, One Piece at a Time, which explores her life before marriage and lessons from going viral.
Charlamagne Tha God is once again apologizing to Reesa Teesa again for his past “big back behavior” comment, and this time she was sitting across from him.
The moment came during Reesa’s interview on Tuesday’s (Nov. 10) episode of The Breakfast Club. Near the 51-minute mark in the audio linked below, DJ Envy asked the Who TF Did I Marry? creator about how difficult it was to manage criticism from the internet after her TikTok series went viral.
“I mean, they were on you for every little thing you did,” Envy asked.
“I wish I didn’t contribute to that either, by the way,” Charlamagne added before Teesa could answer.
Envy immediately asked, “Are you apologizing?” Charlamagne said he had already done so on the air, with Reesa seeming unaware of the apology.
“She’s here right now,” Envy said.
“I apologize for contributing to that,” Charlamagne told her. “Thank you,” Reesa answered before Charlamange added that he “really did not know what you looked like” when he made the comment.
Reesa said the reaction around the clip stung more than the clip itself.
“I was more mad because I heard the thinkpieces before I saw the clip, and that’s on me,” she said. “So, had I saw the clip to understand context, I think it would not have bothered me the way it did. It was the timing of it. And I’ve been a big girl my whole life, I came out nine pounds. But it’s one thing when you know that you’re big and it’s another thing when the world is talking about your weight. I think some people took that comment, jumped on it for views and for likes and made it much worse than it actually was.”
Teesa also gave him some credit while still holding him to account, adding, “He technically did not call me a big back. He said the behavior was big back. Nevertheless … when you have certain platforms, words matter. And people will take those words and they will run with it.”
The original comment came during a February 2024 episode of The Breakfast Club during Jess Hilarious’ “Jess with the Mess” segment, where the hosts recapped her viral 50-part TikTok series and Charlamagne said he heard “a lot of big back behavior.”
Reesa called the remark “hurtful” on a March 2024 episode The Tamron Hall Show, without naming him.
“I tell y’all all the time the easiest way to keep your own peace is to not disturb the peace of others. I disturbed that woman’s peace and that wasn’t my intention so I apologize if my words made her feel that way,” Charlamagne said on the air, per iHeartRadio.
Reesa’s recent appearance on the show to promote her new book, What (TF) Do I Do Now?: Reclaiming Myself, One Piece at a Time, which she told The Breakfast Club is not about her viral 50-part series. Instead, it covers her life before the marriage and what she learned from going viral.
Per Variety, a TV adaptation of Who TF Did I Marry? starring Natasha Rothwell has been in the works since 2024.
