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Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal comes after she was fined $15,000 for “not honouring her contractual media obligations” during the French Open.
On May 27, Osaka announced that she would not do press during the tournament because she felt that press conferences often feel like “kicking a person while they’re down” with people having “no regard for athletes mental health”.
“We’re often sat there and asked questions that we’ve been asked multiple times before or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds and I’m just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me,” Osaka wrote on Twitter.
Piers Morgan got torn to shreds for a column bashing tennis superstar
Meghan Markle shared her own mental health struggles.
You might remember Morgan from his hit performance in Butthurt British Dude Storms Off His Own Show Forever or Same Butthurt British Dude Defends Racist Column as Not Racist, Ackshully, but even though he lost his TV gig, the world is still not well shot of him.
After Osaka dropped out of the tennis tournament and explained in detail the depression and anxiety that led her to that decision, Morgan penned a column entitled “Narcissistic Naomi’s cynical exploitation of mental health to silence the media is right from the Meghan and Harry playbook of wanting their press cake and eating it,” and tweeted it with that same message:
By Sarah RumpfMay 3rd, 2021, 1:54 pm
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Elon Musk is stirring up trouble on Twitter must be a day ending in “Y.” This time, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is drawing controversy ahead of his upcoming gig hosting
Saturday Night Live on May 8.
The announcement that Musk would take the stage at NBC’s Studio 8H quickly drew some online grumbling from
SNL cast members, with several being very clear they were less than enchanted by Musk’s fame and fortune.
This weekend’s tweets did not help the situation.
“Throwing out some skit ideas for SNL. What should I do?” Musk tweeted, adding a few of his own suggestions: Baby Shark and Shark Tank merging to form “Baby Shark Tank,” an Iron Man parody called “Irony Man” who “defeats villains using the power of irony,” and “Woke James Bond.”