At the tailend of 2017, Tiffany Haddish started getting invitations to all of the most exclusive parties. Those were the kinds of parties where Jay-Z and Beyonce would turn up. At one of those parties, Tiffany met Beyonce and Jay-Z and she got selfies with both of them. She posted those photos immediately and everyone was like “OMG you met Beyonce, was it everything you thought it would be??!?” And Tiffany was like “yeah it was amazing.” People kept asking her about Beyonce. And then she revealed a blind item about what really happened the night she met Beyonce, that she almost fought an actress on Beyonce’s behalf. Beyonce responded by telling Tiffany to STFU in a song, which is crazy, right? Well, Tiffany is not going to STFU. She’s going to spill the tea in her GQ interview, because of course she did. You can read the full GQ piece here – it is an incredible joy to read the whole thing, honestly. But here’s the epic Beyonce story:
“There was this actress there,” continues Haddish, keeping her voice low, “that’s just, like, doing the mostest.” One of the most things she did? “She bit Beyoncé in the face.”
Haddish declines to name the actress.
(“I absolutely cannot comment on any of this, as I have no knowledge,” said Beyoncé’s representative, Yvette Noel-Schure, when GQ sought confirmation from the singer.)
“So Beyoncé stormed away,” Haddish says, “went up to Jay-Z, and was like, ‘Jay! Come here! This bitch—’ and snatched him. They went to the back of the room. I was like, ‘What just happened?’ And Beyoncé’s friend walked up and was like, ‘Can you believe this bitch just bit Beyoncé?’ ”
“And so then…,” she continues, “a lot of things happened.” According to Haddish, she and the actress continued to cross paths throughout the night, culminating in a brief standoff. The actress, at one point, told Haddish to stop dancing, which—good luck making that happen.
“And then Beyoncé and Jay-Z walked by me, and I tapped Beyoncé.” Haddish says she told Beyoncé, “I’m going to beat somebody ass at your party. I just want to let you know that.” Beyoncé asked her not to—told her to “have fun” instead. (Haddish leveraged this moment into a selfie with Beyoncé.)
“Near the end of the party,” says Haddish, describing her final run-in with Mrs. Carter sometime later, “Beyoncé’s at the bar, so I said to Beyoncé, ‘Did she really bite you?’ She was like, ‘Yeah.’ I was like, ‘She gonna get her ass beat tonight.’ She was like, ‘Tiffany, no. Don’t do that. That bitch is on drugs. She not even drunk. The bitch is on drugs. She not like that all the time. Just chill.’ ”
Haddish held this story in for as long as she could. Weeks. When people asked about what happened when she met Beyoncé, she tried to remain vague: “I’m not at liberty to say,” she would explain. But Haddish is feeling good in this particular moment on this particular whale watch, and because her personality is perilously infectious, when Tiffany is feeling good, the whole world in her immediate vicinity gets better. She’s exploring the open water with no cell service. (Later, on land, Haddish will open her phone to realize it has logged hundreds of text messages and missed calls.) She’s already seen some whales, more dolphins, and tons of sea lions, to whom she called, “Arf arf!” The sun is intoxicating, and the wind is riffling her wig and gently cooling the piping hot Cup O’ Noodles in her hand. (“Cup O’ Noodles is only two dollars!” Haddish whisper-gasped when she saw that Cup O’ Noodles was only two dollars.) Right now Tiffany Haddish is too happy to keep a tale this juicy bottled up inside her any longer.
“There’s people out here biting Beyoncé!” she says, incredulous.
First of all, I’m just as incredulous as Tiffany. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT HERE BITING BEYONCE. How is this happening? What is this world where we allow Beyonce to get f–king BITTEN ON THE FACE? I’m not even a card-carrying member of the Beyhive and my reaction would have been the same: to try to beat down the bitch who bit Beyonce. As for Tiffany telling this crazy-ass story and what it says about Tiffany and Beyonce… my God. Beyonce sounds like a saint who allows drug addicts to bite her without immediate consequences. Tiffany sounds like such an amazing gossip to have as a friend. I love her.
Photos courtesy of Art Streiber exclusively for GQ. Additional photo courtesy of Getty.
Oooh shit now the beyhive gonna bite her on the face
I know!! Those little bees have alllll the time in the world.
The Beyoncé fans with their bee emojis are out in full force on her instagram threatening her and telling her to keep Beyoncé’s name out of her mouth. Those Beyoncé stans need to get a life.
@Me46: That’s crazy. I think what they really want is to lash out at the actress in the story, but because they have no idea who she is, they’re taking it out on Tiffany.
Nahhhhhhh. I think that she initially slipped up and told the story and the fragmented version made it sound like Jay may have been flirting with another woman. This full version dispels that idea. I imagine she was quietly asked to tell the full version but publicly Bey is playing it like she didn’t want Tiffany to talk – which gets them both even more attention. I mean Tiffany was delighted by the song mention, she was still invited to their super private Oscars party and took photos with Jay and the crew. This is some careful PR management here after a (possible) initial slip-up.
EDIT: I totally misread your comment! Sorry! I read it like you were saying that the Beyhive was going to bite Tiffany for talking about Bey again? But now it seems like you mean the biting actress? Or maybe I was right at first? Well… whatever! Ha ha ha
The first rule of being friends with Beyonce is to not talk about Beyonce.
Lol exactly. Kinda like the second Leo’s gf opens her mouth about their relationship he sends her back to VS. Or wherever she came from, he hasn’t been able to get a VS model in a while now.
I love Tiffany and wish she were my best friend. She deserves crazy big success and she’s getting it. I want to see her in another movie because she was amazing in Girl’s Trip–stole the whole damn movie.
Now might be a good time to apply for this position as I have a feeling she’s just lost some lol.
Okay, I need to know who this woman is. The Cut mentioned a while back that both Sara Foster and Sanaa Lathan were among the actresses at the party, but couldn’t ID anyone else on the guest list. Who could it be??
Well people out there saying Bey looks like a whole snack. And there are some hungry chicks out there.
And what kind of drugs make you think it is ok to bite someone in the face?
Bath salts? 🙂
@PSL that’s that I was going to say! Hahaha
Me too! Now I really want to know who this is.
Between this and her not talking to the public, it looks like Beyoncé is the queen of self-restraint as far as celebrities go. How do you hold yourself back from getting physical after an adult bites you?
She probably drew on the same strength that allowed her to smile for cameras moments after her sister tried to beat her husband’s ass in an elevator at a formal event.
Beyonce is a Virgo- first, last and until death, they are thinking about image and appearances and what “should” be. She’s not taking a career hit because she decided to express her real feelings about some junkie at a party.
Dios mio.
Amen. But honestly, I don’t care who bit who. That first pic with the doll is what made my day! LOL!
Tiffany is very talented.
In this interview Tiffany recommends drinking turpentine for its health benefits.
So Tiffany is also an idiot.
Always interesting when those two things interact.
I like her, but IMO this wasn’t her story to tell. Obviously it wasn’t a vicious bite that did any damage, or Bey would have been in the hospital with corrective surgery and IV antibiotics. Also, it is clearly someone Bey knows and didn’t want to cause a commotion over, maybe even someone she actually likes enough not to start gossip over. So why is Tiff leaking the story? It’s only going to open wild speculation about who it is, which it seems Bey wanted to avoid. Too bad.
I feel that way too.
Like yeah, Tiffany is fun and laughs but some stories aren’t hers to disclose.
I like Tiffany but i feel like she’s going alienate people in her industry. Like who will want to hang out with anyone who spills everything they hear and see. And maybe that doesn’t matter to her but these people are her potential costars, partners, etc.
Tiffany is still such a fan and it’s endearing but eventually other celebrities gonna prefer their privacy.
Mind you it’s awesome for gossip but if i were a celeb i would be wary of her.
a lot of black people i know grew up taking a teaspoon of turpentine and sugar to clear ouot sickness …my step dad, grand parents, etc. they’ve lived into their 80’s 90’s so not really idiotic
I’m here to SO CO-SIGN ON THIS!!! Turpentine and sugar then burn the bottom of the spoon so that it makes a hard candy …NEVA had colds…flu…or sore throats or ear infections!!!!
I mean… I could drive without a seatbelt every time I got in a car and live to 80. Doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous. And it doesn’t mean it is the reason I lived that long.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/medicine-doesnt-come-from-the-hardware-store-dont-drink-turpentine/
Yes, and my grandparents lived into their 80s and 90s smoking cigarettes like they were oxygen supplies and drinking homemade bootleg alcohol. Doesn’t mean it was a good idea. Hey, just because science points out that something is toxic to the human body and there are better alternatives; but you do you.
Mia4s…and who ELSE would I do? I mean…REALLY! How…rude…
Correlation does not imply causation.
I’ve known many elderly people who drank turpentine or kerosene when they felt a cold coming on, so maybe not idiotic, just a family practice. Maybe educate yourself on others practices before calling them idiots. Not that I’d ever recommend someone else do it.
Something can be both idiotic and a family practice – they’re not mutually exclusive.
I’m cackling at the thought of someone BITING Beyoncé in the face. HOW??
Maybe she thought she was getting a hello kiss on the cheek.
I had no idea who she was until I saw Girls Trip and OMG SHE WAS HYSTERICAL IN IT. I’m a fan. She’s just so funny. I would love to hang out in real life. (And I have a feeling that much of her character in Girls Trip is pretty true to life in terms of what she’d say to her friends, her perspective on things, etc. And no, I’m not one of those morons that can’t distinguish real life and fiction; I just really think there’s an authenticity there. Maybe she had a lot of input in dialogue? Maybe there were table reads where she improvised and they added it? Maybe the writers modified the script when she was cast because they knew how she was? Who knows? But I refuse to believe that she’s not at least a little similar to her awesome character in that. LOL.)
Tiffany we need more info!!! Also I think the actress would have to be sort of big time for Beyoncé to hold back?
I feel like it would be the opposite actually. Beyonce is obsessed with her image. She’s too controlled to react to something like this imo.
Beyonce has a pretty unconfrontational personality. Also, like most introverts she is just not prone to big shows of emotion which is why a lot of people feel a dissonance between her performing alter ego and the real her. She took the high road here which is quite in keeping with her personality type.
The great Caity Weaver, formerly of Gawker and the writer of the only Kim Kardashian profile I ever found interesting, wrote this too. I doubt Tiffany needed much help to talk, but Caity being the interviewer probably helped. She’s amazing.
Also this whole story is making my Monday. Drinks with Tiffany would be a contest prize I would cut someone to win.
I miss that feature she did with Rich where they’d go to the tourist restaurants. Some of Gawker was so good.
@Save that was one of my faves too!
The article on SUR was pretty funny.
I miss Gawker!
Me too. Some of it was really silly, but some of it was the best investigative reporting around. Stuff that wasn’t reported on anywhere else. Which is why they were got rid of.
How bloody insane is Hollyweird that it’s considered perfectly normal that someone high on drugs bite someone else on the face??? Everyone seemed way too chilled about the whole thing. I usually find Haddish talkactive persona slightly irritating, but in this case I would have had the exact same reaction. WTF seriously?
I’d love to know who it was. Swear to God it almost sounds like a Jlaw thing. But probably not. I don’t know.
No, not J-Law. I know she isn’t liked around these parts but there are no reports of her being on drugs. I think she may drink a little more than she should, but that’s it.
Like was it a Beyoncé you glow like peach let me take a nibble or an aggressive bite? It couldn’t have been an aggressive bite. That’s disgusting and I’d be seriously freaked out about anyone getting near me for a long time after someone randomly bit me on the face. Shudder.
You glow like a peach let me take a nibble….😂 Either way, how bizarre to bite someone on the face like that!
The real tea here is that Beyoncé is friends with drug users and has parties where drug use happens.
Lmao. Have you never heard of the entertainment industry !?
I know, I laughed too. Maybe the poster thinks it’s like that ‘Hollywood’ episode of Saved By The Bell where the actors at a party pass around the one joint.
Of course there were drugs there. It was a Hollywood party.
This is definitely one of the weirder Hollywood party stories! Beyonce is being pretty chill about the whole thing, I’d have been freaking out.
Ugh. Isn’t this the second story that this woman has name dropped Beyoncé in that has made the headlines?
I’m sorry. I don’t care. Tiffany Haddish is so obnoxious I just can’t. She’s Amy Schumer level of obnoxious and thankfully she’s slowly gone away, hopefully this woman does too.
Girl you took the words out of my mouth. I can’t stand Schumer, Chelsea Handler, or Tiffany, who apparently love to talk about other people for no other reason than to remind us “they know these people”.
All I wanna tell this girl is..
GIRL. Beyonce rules hollywood and controls her mediatic presence. Do. Not. Talk. About. Her. Personal. Business.
My guess is she’s permanently uninvited.
Also. I hate people who will tell everyone about sh*t that happened in a private party or event. Comment it with people who were there and saw whatever happening. Don’t go on record telling the whole world. Obnoxious and unpleasant.
Sometimes I think that Tiffanny is getting to be a bit much, but then I think about how much she worked for to be were she is, sleeping in the car and what not, so I understand that she is enjoying every minute of it. And for whatever reason she does not seem to be worried about mentioning this story multiple times, so she either has Beyonce’s blessing or ‘gasp’ she does not care.
Tiffany can barely hold her own water, she needs to realise when to closer her mouth or those VIP invites will start drying up.
I know right? Who wants a big mouth like that around? Especially Beyonce, who is a very private person.
Who is this chick. She’s getting on my nerves. Something about her rubs me the wrong way.
Tiffany might want to watch it. She’s flirting with J-Law territory. Like, maybe enough with the stories. Although that’s nothing compared to Chrissy Teigan who just HAD to insert herself into the convo and tease that she knows who the actress-in-question is while also being like totally rill and saying she HAD to know the story. Shush up, Chrissy.
Ummm if the person who got bitten is telling you to cool it why don’t you just cool it? Now she’s got to deal with the biter and some woman getting all antsy on her behalf. Tiff, seriously, cool it. Beyonce shouldn’t have to wrangle you.
…how do you even…? Like, HOW do you actually bite a face? I’m a bit confused about the logistics of it. What part of the face? How… This is baffling to me.