It was the bite heard ‘round the world. After Tiffany Haddish revealed that an unnamed actress bit Beyoncé on her face at a party in December 2017, celebrities and members of the Beyhive flocked to Twitter in an attempt to figure out who would have the audacity to do such a thing.
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It was the bite heard ‘round the world. After Tiffany Haddish revealed that an unnamed actress bit Beyoncé on her face at a party in December 2017, celebrities and members of the Beyhive flocked to Twitter in an attempt to figure out who would have the audacity to do such a thing.
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The Girls Trip actress shared her recollection of the evening in an interview with GQ in March 2018. “There was this actress there that’s just, like, doing the mostest. She bit Beyoncé in the face,” Haddish said. “So Beyoncé stormed away, went up to Jay-Z and was like, ‘Jay! Come here! This bitch —’ and snatched him. … Near the end of the party, Beyoncé’s at the bar, so I said to Beyoncé, ‘Did she really bite you?’ She was like, ‘Yeah.’ I was like, ‘She gonna get her ass beat tonight.’ She was like, ‘Tiffany, no. Don’t do that. That bitch is on drugs. She not even drunk. The bitch is on drugs. She not like that all the time. Just chill.’”
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The Cravings cookbook author spoke exclusive with Us Weekly about the incident. “It’s so funny, but I don’t want to get anyone in trouble,” said the Pampers spokesperson, who knows the guilty party’s identity but won’t spill the tea. “I think it’s hysterical that everyone is so protective of her … But it’s fine, we’ve all done things after a couple glasses of wine. If I had a dollar for everything inappropriate I’ve done to someone after a couple drinks, I mean … What I think is the most part is the mystery surrounding it. People have honestly texted me mood boards about this, like actually full CSI, with pictures of actresses connected with red string as to where in the country they were that night.”
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The Love & Basketball actress was accused on Twitter and Instagram of being the perpetrator because she was one of the actresses who attended the party in question. But she quickly shut down the rumors, tweeting on March 26, “Y’all are funny. Under no circumstances did I bite Beyoncé and if I did it would’ve been a love bite.”
Lathan later told Health magazine, “I think it’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever been involved with. Thank God I’ve been in this business for 20 years and have had so many rumors about me. They used to devastate me in my 20s, but in order to survive in this business, you just have to let it roll. I adore Beyoncé. I would never do anything malicious like that — to her, or to anyone. It’s so bizarre. I thought it was the funniest thing ever that it was a news story. It’s so crazy.”
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After New York magazine’s The Cut noted that the 90210 alum also attended the party, she was asked to comment on whether she was the actress who bit Queen Bey. So she took to Instagram, writing, “Flattering that anyone thinks I could get this close to Beyoncé.”
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Although her loyal following is determined to identify the assailant, Beyoncé has moved on and doesn’t want to get anyone in trouble. “She think it’s sweet people are so concerned, but also doesn’t want to make life hard for the person that did it,” a source told Us exclusively. “Beyoncé’s team is being contacted by almost everyone they’ve ever met! They are getting texts and calls asking, ‘Were you there? What did you see? Have you heard anything?’ It’s pretty insane for anyone that works with Beyoncé.”
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The Girls creator denied rumors that she sunk her teeth into Beyoncé via Twitter in March 2018. “As the patron saint of ‘She would do that…’ I didn’t,” she teased.
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Oops! The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star shared a throwback photo of herself on set and teased, “All right, I admit it. It was me #TheBiter.”
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The Emmy winner joked via Instagram in March 2018 that his next TV project will be American Crime Story: Who Bit Beyoncé? “It’s happening,” he teased alongside a faux cryptic poster. “Who should play Beyoncé?”
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He knows who it was, but he won’t spill the tea! “Oh, I know who did. I’m not going to tell! But I know who did it,” Perry told Us in March 2018.
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During an Instagram Live session, the Last O.G. star said, “NDAs are real, so I’m not saying s--t about nothing.” She later told her 2.2 million followers that “people should be focusing on the real issues at hand” before joking that the culprit was porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump.
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A month after Haddish said that Beyoncé had been bit, she hung out with the “Formation” singer’s mother at a book club meeting. Tina Knowles gushed via Instagram on Tuesday, April 24: “How exciting is it that the talented, author Tiffany Haddish came and answered questions about the book The Last Unicorn. I devoured this book the first week it came out. It was very inspiring, open, hilarious, sad, and helped me to understand the foster care system. A great read.”
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After months of silence, Haddish broached the subject again during a Hollywood Reporter interview published in June. The comedian asked her interviewer if she knew who was responsible for biting Beyoncé. When the journalist mentioned Lathan, the actress replied with a smile: “I’m super good friends with her stepmom and dad [Stan, a producer-director], and they were mad at me. They were like, ‘Why would you do this to the family? You know, black actresses, you guys have to stick together, it’s so hard for you guys to get work as it is, why would you try to ruin her career?’ But I didn’t try to ruin her career. I never said her name! I was just trying to say how Beyoncé kept me from goin’ to jail that night. I coulda just shut my whole career down.”
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