Fired ViacomCBS personality Nick Cannon is demanding `full ownership` of `Wild 'N Out,` which he referred to as a `billion dollar` brand. He also wants an apology.
Cannon, who was let go on Tuesday for a `Cannon's Class` podcast episode that ViacomCBS said `promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,` pushed back in a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday.
Cannon said he reached out to Shari Redstone, who controls ViacomCBS through her National Amusements, Inc. company, `to have a conversation of reconciliation and actually apologize if I said anything that pained or hurt her or her community.`
Cannon's firing came because of comments he made during a June episode of his podcast series `Cannon's Class` in which he interviewed former Public Enemy member Richard `Professor Griff` Griffin - who himself was fired from the group for making anti-Semitic comments in a 1989 interview - and repeatedly referenced fringe conspiracy theories about Jewish people controlling banking as well as major media companies.
During the conversation, Griffin defended his past remarks that Jews were responsible for `the majority of wickedness that goes on across the globe,` saying, `I'm hated now because I told the truth.`
Cannon replied, `You're speaking facts. There's no reason to be scared of anything when you're speaking the truth.` Cannon also said Black people are the `true Hebrews` and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has a long history of making anti-Semitic remarks.
