One Battle After Another actress Teyana Taylor has broken her silence about being “shoved” at the Oscars, insisting she “doesn’t tolerate disrespect, especially when it’s unwarranted and unprovoked”.
Teyana Taylor has insisted she “doesn’t tolerate disrespect” after she was “shoved” at the Oscars.
The One Battle After Another actress – who lost out in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Academy Awards – has told how she is “all good” following an incident at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Sunday night (15.03.26), when she blasted a security guard for putting his hands on her at the Oscars.
When asked about the moment, she told TMZ: “Everybody’s having a good time, and security was just doing a lot.
“There’s always that one.
“There’s nothing to wonder.
“The first thing people do is make assumptions, but at the end of the day, I just don’t tolerate disrespect, especially when it’s unwarranted and it’s unprovoked.”
Teyana’s latest comments come after she was captured on camera in a row as she tried to move through the Academy Awards crowd backstage, after she had been up to accept the Best Picture prize with her co-stars.
In the video, she can be seen shouting: “You’re a man putting his hands on a female…
“You’re very rude. You’re very rude. You’re very rude.”
Teyana explained to a concerned onlooker: “He put his hands on a female.”
She claimed: “He literally shoved me. He was damn near shoving her.”
In the clip, Teyana told people around her: “Do not touch me, do not shove me, do not push me.”
According to TMZ, the 35-year-old star was trying to get back on stage with Pam Adbi, the co-head of Warner Bros, when a security guard tried to stop them.
While One Battle After Another won Best Picture, Teyana missed out on the Best Supporting Actress prize after Weapons star Amy Madigan took home her first Oscar – 40 years after her first-ever nomination.
In part of her speech, Amy paid tribute to her fellow nominees, Teyana, Sentimental Value stars Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Sinners’ Wunmi Mosaku.
She said: “I also wanted to pay tribute to Elle and Inga, Wunmi and Teyana. Oh my legs are shaking, when I was doing all the Weapons stuff I was travelling on my own and people from One Battle and Sinners, and all the films, they gave me a hug and said, ‘Yeah, come on in, let us know you and you know us.’ “
‘I don’t tolerate disrespect!’ Teyana Taylor breaks silence on Oscars ‘shove’
