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“The next year for the BET Awards, they reached out to have me present, and the script was me and Nick Cannon, and he was going, ‘Meagan, I see that you wore a different dress this year—a lot more covered up!’ and I’m like, ‘Ha-ha-ha!’ I called them and said, ‘I don’t feel like this is funny. For one, that was not a funny experience—it was traumatizing—and two, I’m not going to go up there and act like I’m apologizing to someone when I have nothing to apologize for,'” she said. “Their response was: ‘You either say it or you don’t present.’ So I was like, ‘OK, then I won’t present.’ And when I got off the phone, I cried. I was like, ‘Would you do this to Gabrielle Union or Taraji? You have this perception of me, and it’s crazy that you want to hold me to what that should be.’ I’m not going for it.” “No one will ever control what I do or how I do it; it will always be spirit-led, and how I feel God feels about it,” she said. “It took me a long time to not feel so hurt and be so affected.”
