Nick Cannon Apologizes to Jewish Community, Demands ViacomCBS Give Him Rights to Wild ’N Out

In a lengthy Facebook message posted Wednesday, Nick Cannon apologized to the Jewish community for his recent inflammatory remarks, which were deemed anti-Semitic by his former employer ViacomCBS. But he also stood firm against ViacomCBS—which terminated its relationship with him over Cannon’s comments—and demanded the corporation give him the rights to his lucrative, long-running comedy series Wild ’N Out.

“I demand full ownership of my billion dollar ‘Wild ’N Out’ brand that I created, and they will continue to misuse and destroy without my leadership!” he wrote.

Cannon also pushed back on ViacomCBS’s apparent claim that he did not attempt to make amends after his remarks went viral, saying he even went so far as to reach out to ViacomCBS chair Shari Redstone, but didn’t hear back from her. “That’s when I realized they don’t want a conversation or growth, they wanted to put the young negro in his place,” Cannon wrote. “They wanted to show me who is boss, hang me out to dry and make an example of anyone who says something they don’t agree with.”

The Wild ’N Out creator came under fire after the June 30 episode of his podcast Cannon’s Class went viral. In it, Cannon said that Black people are “the true Hebrews.”