Actor Jonathan Majors is in the hot seat yet again, this time for his usage of the late Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife name, Coretta Scott King as he had compared Meagan Good to King.
“Everything has kinda gone away. And it’s just me now, you know, and my lovely, you know, partner, Meagan, and my dogs. She’s an angel. She’s held me down like a Coretta,” Major said of Good. “I’m so blessed to have her. The relationship is still fresh, but I think I’ve found her,” He said in his ABC News interview.
Many social media users have called him out on his use of King’s name as voicemails that were released during his trial he was heard talking to ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari where he said that she should be “more like Michelle Obama and Coretta Scott King.”
MLK’s daughter, Bernice King chimed into the conversation where she says her mother “wasn’t a prop” along with sharing a post of her mother’s Civil Rights history before being married to MLK.
“My mother wasn’t a prop. She was a peace advocate before she met my father and was instrumental in him speaking out against the Vietnam War. Please understand…my mama was a force.”
Majors has responded where he says that he meant no harm.
“My intention was to convey my utmost respect for Coretta Scott King, her achievements, and both her personal legacy and the one she shares with her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King,” Majors said in a statement to TMZ.
