Geoffrey Owens tells Steve Harvey about job-shaming blessings ‘It was almost embarrassing the amount of love’
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Geoffrey Owens is basking in the blessings that came in the form of plentiful job offers after a Trader Joes job shaming debacle turned out to be a benefit for the former Cosby Show actor.
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Owens sat down with Steve Harvey this week on his Steve TV show and opened up about how he came to embrace the mortifying moment that embarrassed him.
“It was pretty humiliating I had heard this story was going to come out a week and a half before it came out I braced myself for a week and a half, thinking Ok, it can’t be that bad. How bad can it be? Then it came out and I was like, man it was worst than I imagined,” he admits.
“But fortunately, it only lasted a couple of hours before all the good stuff started happening.”
What started out as job shaming and an embarrassing moment for Owens, quickly turned positive after the internet rallied around the former Cosby show actor who played the son-in-law Elvin. Owens was inundated with job offers, and most notably media mogul Tyler Perry swooped in and scooped Owens up and offered him a gig on his hugely successful The Haves and Have Nots series.
“It was overwhelming,” Owens said. “It was almost embarrassing the amount of love and respect admiration and support. It felt like a tidal wave coming from all over the world,” he said.
Owens even joked that he felt the camaraderie just might unite the country.
“An NRA spokesman said something nice and positive about me on this side, and Hollywood liberals on this side… I thought, ‘wow maybe this is the issue over which our country’s gonna be united. I’m gonna unite the country single-handedly.”
Rap star, Nicki Minaj even gave Owens $25,000.
“I turned right around and gave it to the actor’s fund,” he told Harvey. “It’s a great organization that helps struggling actors basically stay on their feet and stay afloat.”
Beside The Haves and Have Nots job, Owens said he also will appear in a guest starring role on NCIS: New Orleans and he’s in the filming the movie thriller Fatale starring Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy.
Owens said the experience has taught him: “I’m glad I hung in there.”
Watch his interview with Harvey here.
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