T.I. has claimed that he was exaggerating when he discussed his daughter’s annual ‘virginity checks’ earlier this month.
The rapper sparked serious backlash after he said he brings his 18-year-old daughter Deyjah Harris to the gynaecologist after every birthday to “check her hymen”.
Addressing his comments for the first tome on Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, he said: “First of all, I came to clear up any misconceptions there have been surrounding how we parent and what is appropriate and inappropriate.”
“I think all of this comes from a conversation I was having in a very joking manner when asked how I deal with parenting in this day and age.”
“From a place of truth, I began to embellish and exaggerate and I think a lot of people took it extremely literal because if you put any of my reputation, who I am as a father, who I’ve been, I honestly thought people knew me better than that.”
“I never said I was in any exam room, that was an assumption. That is a falsity. I never said it was being done present day as an 18 year old,” he said.
T.I.’s wife Tameka then clarified that the exam happened when their daughter was 15 or 16 years old, and said T.I. never actually made the appointment.
The rapper continued: “I never said that her mother wasn’t present. She was present every time. All of this false narrative has just been sensationalised.”
