By Cuba Gooding Jr faces controversy with ‘my truth’
Cuba Gooding Jr made his thoughts known following pleading guilty to forcible touching, in a sit down interview addressing the ‘truth’.
In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Gooding, 54, said he was ‘100% changed’, after he admitted to the charged.
‘It’s funny too because I don’t want this to stop me connecting with my fans,’ he added.
‘I don’t want this to stop me connecting with the gregarious behavior in terms of the positive energy that I have. I’m ten times more aware of what is going on around me and I just use that as my focus.’
Piers made a point of how Gooding’s ‘difficult past’ could not serve as an excuse for his behavior.
‘The answer to that is you have to live in your truth, and I know in my truth, I didn’t mean to disrespect anyone,’ Cuba responded.
Though Morgan showed concern over the phrase ‘my truth.’
‘Let’s take the word “my” out. There’s video footage of the interactions with these women that showed the truth of what happened,’ Gooding Jr. continued.
‘And it’s funny, so I had so many people come up to me in the street and say, “I support you, I saw the video”… but the one thing that I found that really hit me, and I said, “Okay now it’s time for me to mention this, to talk about it.”
He has always denied wrongdoing, but apologized for making women feel ‘uncomfortable’, but says some were ‘consensual’.
The plea deal was reached in April this year.
If he complies with its terms, the charge will be reduced to a violation and his criminal record will be wiped clean.
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