Azealia Banks breaks down in tears as she recalls ‘humiliation’ of racist bust up with Russell Crowe
AZEALIA Banks broke down in tears during a TV interview as she discussed the night she claims Russell Crowe called her the N-sword, choked and spat at her.
The 25-year-old revealed her ‘humiliation’ and said she felt she always got the blame for things, as she opened up during the emotional interview with Access Hollywood.
She said: “Every time, every time something like this happens I'm always like being blamed for, like, wanting this kind of attention,
“Like who the f*** wants to tell somebody they got spat on? You know, that's humiliating. And I'm just like really, really humiliated.”
The rapper – who previously racially abused Zayn Malik – then went on to recall what happened that night after she gave her first account of the incident to The Sun.
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She said told us that actor Russell smoked marijuana and drank a cocktail of vodka, whisky and moonshine before choking, spitting and calling her a “n*****” after she rejected his advances.
But Russell’s inner circle angrily deny he is a racist and insist she repeatedly used the N-word.
And they say he was forced to grab Azealia in a bear hug and take her out of a party in his hotel room after she threatened to stab him and a female guest with a glass.
She has denied this saying during her TV interview: “I had a glass in my hand because I was drinking.”
Azealia - who had been invited to the party in Russell’s hotel room by Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA, 47 – had decided not to take legal action against the actor.
She told Us Weekly magazine: "Realistically, to be honest, I really don't want to. Because I just don't want this in the media. I want my music out. I just want to f***ing put my music out.
"I just want my music to shine. I don't want to be dealing with another episode, another thing, another whatever."
Despite a number of sources, including producer RZA disputing Azealia's account of what happened and insisting she was at fault, the '212' hitmaker insists she does want an apology from the Noah star.
She said: "[Russell] feels that he did nothing wrong, so I'm just like, OK, if you want to pay a bunch of litigators and a bunch of people to apologise to me, then I guess that's what you want to do.
"You could apologise to me for free now and make this all go away."
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