Ice-T had a quite sturdy response to Lenny Kravitz’s current revelation that he practices celibacy.
Mere hours after Kravitz mentioned in an interview printed Thursday in The Guardian that he’s abstained from intercourse outdoors of marriage and hasn’t been in a relationship for 9 years, Ice-T couldn’t assist however chime in. The previous rapper was palpably confused.
“Hey….. If you’re a Guy and you can voluntarily go 9yrs without sex… You’re following the wrong page,” the gangsta rap pioneer and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” actor wrote on X, previously Twitter, to virulent pushback.
“Why judge him, though? It’s his choice,” one individual replied, including: “I don’t think it’s fair to assume something is wrong with him just because he’s chosen to be celibate for a long period. I think there are many humans who can & do abstain … for various reasons.”
Ice-T, whose been married to actor Coco Austin for 23 years, stood his floor, nevertheless, replying bluntly: “Shit’s Weird to me….. I love to Fuck. A lot.”
Rock star Kravitz, a four-time Grammy winner, married actor Lisa Bonet in 1987. Regardless of their 1993 divorce, they collectively raised daughter Zoë Kravitz, whose fiancé, Channing Tatum, just lately earned the rocker’s reward for being “soulful.”
The “Fly Away” singer defined within the interview that infidelity was a “curse” he inherited from his father, Sy Kravitz, who not solely cheated on his mom however informed a younger Lenny that he’d ultimately do the identical factor.
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“He became right,” Kravitz informed the newspaper. “After the marriage, I became more like him. I was becoming a player. I didn’t like it. I didn’t want to be that guy. So I had to tackle that and it took years … [and] taking responsibility. Discipline. Not letting my own desires take over.”
The singer first talked about his abstinence in 2008 and informed Maxim that he was “looking at the big picture” and ready for somebody with the proper “mind and spirit.” He later claimed the story acquired “blown out of proportion,” nevertheless, regardless of later returning to celibacy.
Though he defined in Thursday’s interview that “it’s a spiritual thing” and regardless of social media customers telling Ice-T that Kravitz is on his personal “journey,” the hip-hop icon wouldn’t have it — and he informed one consumer: “F that Journey.”
Whether or not Kravitz caught wind of all this stays to be seen.
