Halle is Berry Sorry About Anti-Semitic Remark

Halle Berry apologized last night after she made an anti-Semitic joke while taping The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Friday afternoon.

An audience member told Page Six, Halle was showing photos of herself when she said, “Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!” and showed a shot of herself with a huge nose.

Halle said, “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody - and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did. What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me. We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’ And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody.”

You can watch Halle’s appearance on Leno here (the anti-Semitic remark was cut out).


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How come it’s only okay to make fun of the whites and the asians?

Jewish girl @ 10/23/2007 at 2:03 pm

Free speach does not stop with Jews, this is America, you don’t like it go to Israel where killing Palestinians is a national passtime!!!!!

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yas is OK i really for the right of speach but is dont OK to be racist.and dont i will dont go to Israel because this is my home and you really stupid because the Palestinian are the one that killing is there national passtime !!!!!!

and i have vary big family and most of us have a small nose so dont said all tha Jewish have…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anonymous @ 10/23/2007 at 2:07 pm

no oscar for her this year and no more revenue for her movie. it’s going to take a skydive to the bottom of the box office now.

# 24 i’m a proud israeli jewish! if you have feelings of inferiority and have problems with my country/jewish people you can go cry around the corner! i’m holding myself from giving a commet about what you said on my country, you ignorant!

jewish people rule!

That was anti-Semitic? Geez! PC in overload.

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 2:16 pm

yas is OK i really for the right of speach but is dont OK to be racist.and dont i will dont go to Israel because this is my home and you really stupid because the Palestinian are the one that killing is there national passtime !!!!!!

and i have vary big family and most of us have a small nose so dont said all tha Jewish have…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stop it you are acting you are the victim we all know what Israelis are doing to the palestinians. You forgot about the Lebanon who bombed Lebanon? who killed the innocent civilians in Lebanon? So Stop playing the victim.

# 30 YOU
blablabla

ME
whatever, i’m not neurotic i just gave a comment to aan un wise comment.
i know what 100% means and it is not 100% and not MOST at all!

proud israeli jewish @ 10/23/2007 at 2:23 pm

24 Naima
you are vary idiot you rally dont no what going on between the israelis and the Palestinians i am from israel (ans i vary proud of that) and i will tell you that you dont love to kill for pleasure is called s-e-l-f d-e-f-e-n-s-e because we will dont sit and watch them kill us!!!!!!!

# 36 dont speak if you dont now! and clearly you dont know NOTHING
you dont know why it happend and what happend in Israel. you just know what the media. said you dont know how many innocent people (in Israel) was killed and how hars it was for them to stay over a month inside shelters. so think before you say something you dont know at all.
i dont critic you’ im just giving you something to think about.

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 2:30 pm

Here they cut that part oh wow big freaking deal so they can save Haley’s career we don’t want the Jewish producers who are controlling Hollywood to get mad at Halley now do we? loooool what a joke

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/16719253.html

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 2:37 pm

#39 cmon you know I’m right the media? The mediaaaaaaaaaa how dare you say that the media is always on your side when have you ever heard CNN bad mouth the israelis or other local stations when? I have to go to BBC to read some normal news I understand Israelis had losts also but don’t you dare compare the lost with Lebanese people, you destroy their homes, you destroy their schools, you took away their parents, you took away their kids, by killing them of course, and yet you are trying to explain me something?

Everyone has become so ultra sensitive and politically correct that it’s sickening. With all that is going on in the world and the horrible things that are said and done every day, I do not think people should be so highly offended at an innocent joke. Get over it already and lighten up. Spend your energy and time for issues that truly need to be addressed in this day and age - not your sensitive little egos. LOL Many people are constantly being unjustly hurt in so many serious ways (emotionally and physically) and here people are crying and complaining that their poor little feeling are hurt because of something that was said on a late night comedy show. How do such poor little fragile things make it through a day in the real life? Save your hurt, shock and judgment for real racist issues that need to be seriously looked at and addressed.

from israel @ 10/23/2007 at 2:41 pm

*36 how you know all that????? from TV??????
i am from israel and what you write is piece of bullshit and if you want to know Lebanon hurt and kill a lot of innocent people from israel to that were months in shelters

She apologized. That should end the story. She is beautiful by the way, to the person who said she was ugly. Come on!

I'm a Jew and i'm not blue @ 10/23/2007 at 2:50 pm

okay I’m jewish and i’m not offended by this anyone that think its anti-semitic is crazy now don’t get me wrong naturally some people might get offended but i don’t really think its that serious it was a joke her assitant said about it and she repeated it she wasn’t offended when her assitant said that pic made her look jewish she taught it was funny and when she said it she didn’t have any ill-intent thats why she apologized for it cause she don’t want peoples feeling to be hurt so again its really not that serious also its not anti-semtic cause only eastern european jews have big noses I should know I have one lol its not serious people its really not

what the hell @ 10/23/2007 at 2:53 pm

what plastic surgery? she neva had any plastic surgery and she just repeated what her JEWSIH friend said about her, i don’t think she wanted to insult anyone

Has anyone even read this post in its entirety?

HALLE BERRY: “What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me.

We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’ And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody.”

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 3:04 pm

#42 you are the biggrst bull **** well ya what do you expect coming that out of Israel stop whining you are not the victim you are killing so many innocent civilians the only reason you can get away with murder is because America supports you unfortunately.

The phrase anti-semetic is used entirely too loosely. What she said amounts to a white/black/latino what have you joke. If this had been ANY other race no one would be talking about it. NO ONE.

I DONT GET IT ALOT OF JEWISH COMEDIANS MAKE FUN OF ASIANS LOOK LIKE
DON WRINKLES AND OTHERS
BUT THEY NEVER GET SLACK FOR IT

# 42 i think you are right!
but i have one last thing to say to #41 you know NOTHING we just want to defense ourselves before our enemies destroy us. you dont know HOW many people was killed by our enemies!!! you dont know how many bombs they send on us you dont know how many people staied homeless! i resist the killing of innocent people! and you shuldnt judge us because what you saw in the media because it is 50% false. the media can deceive you.

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 3:11 pm

#42 Sorry that was meant for number #43

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 3:14 pm

#51 you are still whining and crying stop it stoppppppppppp how many times do i have to tell you don’t play the victim you think Israelis are so innocent? get a life and heres the prove you whine on every little thing and scream ant-semetic

FOR ALL THE IDIOTS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS BECOMING AN ISSUE… BECAUSE IT IS A SIGN OF A GREATER ISSUE… THERE’S A BIT OF TRUTH BEHIND EVERY BIT OF SARCASAM. IF YOU ARE STEREO TYPING THAT ALL JEWS HAVE BIG NOSES, THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE YOU ARE DOING THE SAME IN OTHER CASES. WHAT SHE SAID IS SIMILAR TO ANYONE SAYING ALL BLACK WOMEN ARE SINGLE PARENT, DRUG USING, UNEDCUATED, WHORES AND ALL BLACK MEN ARE ABUSING, CHILD LEAVING, INMATES. WHEN YOU CALL ONE BLACK PERSON NIG??, YOU ARE INSULTING ALL BLACKS. WHEN YOU SAY YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR JEWISH COUSIN IN A PIC WITH AN UGLY BIG NOSE, YOU ARE SAYING THE SAME ABOUT ALL JEWS. YOU ARE CONDONING THAT ALL THE STEREOTYPING OVER THE EARS THE JEWS HAVE BEEN CALLED ON, IS BASICALLY TRUE. WHERE DOES IT STOP, A BIG NOSE TODAY, A CHEAP DIRTY WORTHLESS KIKE TOMORROW…HOPE THAT HELPED THE IGNORANTS HERE INCLUDING THE LIARS WHO CALL THEMSELVES JEWS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE UNDERLYING MEANING IN SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THIS ESPECIALLY IN PUBLIC…

IT ALSO TELLS YOU SHE IS SO SELF CENTERED SHE NEVER THINKS ABOUT ANYONE ELSE WHEN SHE SPEAKS. WHAT TRUE CHARITY EVENT HAS SHE EVER DONE? SHOWED UP IN A MALIBU PROTEST BY SURFERS AND USED IT AS A PHOTO OP WITH HER BOY TOY. SHE GOT ALL DRESSED UP AND WENT TO THE HOPE BALL, AGAIN WITH HER BOYTOY TO INTRODUCE HIM TO ALL HER FAMOUS FRIENDS. THE PLUSES OF DATING HER. SINCE SHE’S GOT NOTHING ELSE TO OFFER.

I ALSO FOUND IT OFFENSIVE THAT SHE SAID SHE’S GOT NOTHING TO DO CAUSE SHE’S PREGNANT, WHEN JAY SAID SHE HAD A LOT OF FREE TIME ON HER HAND. DOES SHE KNOW PREGNANT WOMEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD WORK RIGHT UP TO THEIR DUE DATE. ON THEIR FEET FOR 10 HOURS A DAY. DID SHE SEE ANGELINA JOLIE MAKING HUMANITARIAN TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD TIL SHE WAS 8 MONTHS ALONG.

ALSO, I THOUGHT SHE WAS ON THE SHOW TO TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE WHICH HAS STUNK UP THE BOX OFFICE ON IT’S OPENING WEEKEND. DIDN’T SHE SAY SHE WAS TIRED OF EVERYONE ASKING HER ABOUT HER PREGNANCY. THEN SHE’S EATING PEPERCHINOS FROM THE JAR. WHAT A STUPID STUPID WOMAN. HALLOW HALLE SHOULD BE HER NEW NICKNAME. GET A LIFE SISTER. I FIND YOU OFFENSIVE ON SO MANY FRONTS IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LIST THEM ALL HERE…

Also, I can’t believe she’s putting this on her assistant and she had to mention the girls jewish of course. How stupid. take responsibility for once Halle and own up to it…

thats_right @ 10/23/2007 at 3:22 pm

#55 ALSO FOUND IT OFFENSIVE THAT SHE SAID SHE’S GOT NOTHING TO DO CAUSE SHE’S PREGNANT, WHEN JAY SAID SHE HAD A LOT OF FREE TIME ON HER HAND. DOES SHE KNOW PREGNANT WOMEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD WORK RIGHT UP TO THEIR DUE DATE. ON THEIR FEET FOR 10 HOURS A DAY. DID SHE SEE ANGELINA JOLIE MAKING HUMANITARIAN TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD TIL SHE WAS 8 MONTHS ALONG.
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I agree with you on that one.

51 Jewish ———- you are so right
53 thats_right—— you are so stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jew4halle @ 10/23/2007 at 3:35 pm

#30 I support Israel. You need to seek anger management help. Or find another avenue to release some tension. I suggest boxing or a spa treatment.

Jenny — you rock. :) Well said, all of it.

What if she referred to black people having big lips? Then everyone would think it was horrible!! No group should be stereotyped in any way. That seemingly minor comment just leads to bigger stereotypes, which leads to prejudices. Nothing good ever came out of a stereotypical comment.

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