Over 20 years later, Kurt Loder has apologised to Jewel for the way he spoke to her in an infamous MTV interview from 1998.
During the interview, critic, journalist and TV personality Loder notoriously called Jewel out on her grammar and criticised some of the language she had used in one of her poems.
Discussing her then-new poetry collection A Night Without Armor, Jewel was interrupted by Loder, who disagreed with her usage of the word âcasualtyâ in one of the poems. In response at the time, Jewel said: âYouâre a smart-ass for pointing that out.”
In a new interview with Stereogum this month, Jewel revealed that she was yet to receive an apology of any kind from Loder.
âI just remember looking at him and like saying, âFuck you.â I am uneducated, straight-up. An uneducated kid that was homeless. Youâre a college-educated man going after a kid, âFuck you.â I was so pissed. No, no apology.â
Here's that hard to find video of Kurt Loder fact checking Jewel about her use of "casualty" in one of her poems. pic.twitter.com/QcI2ZCK3C3
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Jewel added: âHe was just a dick. What an ass to show himself like that. It was almost that thing where youâd feel sorry for somebody, itâs like, âWow, hereâs a full grown man who does news for children, on a childrenâs network, for teenagers.â Yeah. Youâre bitter.â
In a statement shared via Yahoo Entertainment, Loder has now apologised for his actions for the first time, writing: âThat MTV interview I did with Jewel was a shitty thing to do to anyone, and Iâve been ashamed of having done it ever since. If I could go back in time Iâd smack me in the head. However, Iâm not a college graduateâŠ.â
Jewel is set to release new album ‘Freewheelin’ Woman’, her first since 2015’s ‘Picking Up The Pieces’, this Friday (April 15).
âI cut my teeth on singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and got into those Muscle Shoals records a little later on, and for some reason thatâs where my voice and my writing wanted to go on this album,â she said of the new record.
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