Carmelo Anthony mentioned he was simply making an attempt to maintain a low profile when he was caught giving Rihanna a stoic stare at an after celebration following the 2014 Met Gala.
Throughout Thursday’s installment of his “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast — with The Child Mero, Rudy Homosexual and Monica McNutt — Anthony defined the moments main as much as the photograph being taken and the group couldn’t comprise their laughter.
“We already in there having a good time. Every time a celebrity comes in, the cameras go crazy,” Anthony mentioned. “… It’s small in that space, you see all of the flashes, it’s commotion while you stroll in there. I lastly stroll in and get via the cameras and sit down — now I discovered my my consolation zone, sitting down. I’m not on the highest degree of the sofa, I’m making an attempt to be low. Rih walks in, cameras go loopy, all you see is white flashes.
“There’s only one area to go to, there’s only one area to go to and I’m like, ‘Please don’t come over here,’” he joked. “The flashes is going, so I put my head down and I look up and she’s right there posing.”
The previous Knicks ahead, who attended the Met together with his then-wife, actress La La Anthony (they divorced in June 2021), obtained the meme therapy.
On the time, somebody joked that he seemed “ready jeopardize it all” within the second.
On the podcast, Anthony mimicked his viral stare, which had everybody within the room laughing.
“Had to clear this one up,” Anthony wrote on X, together with the video.
“This had the internet in a chokehold,” McNutt, a basketball analyst at ESPN, mentioned.
“I’ve never seen you look like that bro, what’s going on?” mentioned Homosexual, who introduced his NBA retirement final October after 17 seasons.
