Author John Grisham‘s recent remarks about men being unfairly imprisoned after watching child pornography has left Rosie O’Donnell in utter disgust. So much so that she suggested police should investigate him.
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“Did John Grisham feel like these people needed a champion and he was it?” she said on Friday’s “The View,” telling her co-hosts that she was “horrified” by what the author said.
Grisham said in an interview with The Telegraph this week: “We have prisons now filled with guys my age — 60-year-old white men — in prison, who’ve never harmed anybody, would never touch a child, but they got online one night, started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, pushed the wrong buttons, went too far, and got into child porn.”
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Two days later and after a strong public uproar, Grisham apologized.
“Anyone who harms a child for profit or pleasure, or who in any way participates in child pornography — online or otherwise — should be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” Grisham wrote. “My comments made two days ago during an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph were in no way intended to show sympathy for those convicted of sex crimes, especially the sexual molestation of children. I can think of nothing more despicable. I regret having made these comments, and apologize to all.”
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O’Donnell wasn’t exactly buying it.
“Well, John, I accept your apology but I don’t believe in your [expletive] bull crap thing that you said before,” O’Donnell said Friday’s show. “Nobody accidentally stumbles onto child pornography. If I were the police, I’d look at John Grisham‘s hard drive right now.”
That comment led co-host Whoopi Goldberg to announce “The View” was going to a break.
Watch the video from Friday morning’s “The View” above.
