Ted Danson stumbled over his words as he recounted the blackface and N-word stunt he pulled more than three decades ago to roast his then-girlfriend, Whoopi Goldberg, on Wednesday.
“It’s just difficult when you’re talking about having had an affair with somebody while you were married, you know, and you’ve been now married for 32 years,” he began on the latest episode of Who’s With Me? with W. Kamau Bell. “So if I stutter a little bit, it’s a little bit because of that.”
Danson was married to his then-wife, producer Cassandra “Casey” Coates, when he began a public affair with Goldberg in 1992. He and Coates divorced in 1993, and he remarried actress Mary Steenburgen in 1995. But his affair with Goldberg—and his infamous choice to participate in the New York Friars Club roast while wearing blackface in 1993—has followed him.
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