Mary J. Blidge On Burger King Commerical Comments: 'It Broke My Heart'

Two months ago the internet went into overdrive when Burger King prematurely 
released a commercial featuring Mary J. Blige. Fans and critics  instantly
harped on the ESSENCE  Music Festival headliner. But Blige
tells Angie Martinez the negative  comments didn't feel good at all.

"It
just broke my heart," said Blige.  "People were just going crazy and I
understand the laughter and the jokes and  the stuff happening. That's all good.
You're supposed to do that when something  like that happens. It made people's
websites go up. It made people get more  ratings on their radio stations but the
thing that hurt me is when people  started saying vicious negative things that
didn't happen."

Blige  confesses she didn't immediately respond because
she didn't feel like she could  change anyone's opinion. "Everyone was doing
what they were doing and saying  what they were saying and I just felt that
there was no need for me to say  anything," Blige admitted. "Everyone was
running with it and just crucifying me  and going crazy. I said it's too much
going on for me to try and stick my head  out there and say anything, so i just
pulled back and I watched everyone and  everything."

Above all, through
this ordeal Blige learned who her real  friends are. "What this did was expose
everyone and everything that was in my  life and it showed me who my friends
are," said the superstar. "But so many  people reached out to me on a level of
we knew what you were trying to do. We  saw how it went terribly
wrong."

If that wasn't enough, Blige did issue  an apology to those who
hurt by the ad. "I want to apologize to everyone who was  offended who thought
that I would do something that was so disrespectful to our  culture. I would
never do anything like that. I thought I was doing something 
right."

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