Terrence Howard on Naomi Campbell
This entry was posted on 3/5/2007 7:50 AM and is filed under Interviews,Ephemera.
At a recent press day for LionsGate's forthcoming
Pride,
Terrence Howard commented on rumors that he and Naomi Campbell were seeing each other romantically.
“I’m a married man, but Quincy Jones did
ask me to look after her and to talk to her," says Howard, who was married for 14 years, divorced his wife in 2003, remarried in 2005, and has since allegedly separated from her. "In the same way that
Richard
Parsons called me into his office and said, ‘Mr. Howard, I do not know what
your private life is like, but your public persona is on a par with Senator Barack
(Obama).’ He said, ‘I want you to talk with
Quincy.’
So I left his office and went to see Quincy Jones.
He said talk to her… as a
human being, as a friend. That’s what we’re supposed
to do. The media may attack, but my responsibility is to this black woman who
has established something amazing [and] opened up doors for other people, and
my responsibility is to my elders, so if they say, ‘Do this, do that,’ I’m
going to listen to them. I’m going to keep my friendship with her, and
hopefully one day people will be able to remember her contributions and stop
remembering her only for her faults.”
