Snoop Dogg says 'my bad' for controversial comments criticizing lesbian couple in
The rapper previously said he felt "scared to go to the movies" after having to address the Pixar film's LGBTQ+ representation with his grandson.
By
Shania Russell
Updated on August 31, 2025 2:28 p.m. ET
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Snoop Dogg in March 2025; Alisha Hawthorne in 2022's 'Lightyear'.Credit:
Vivien Killilea/Getty; Disney/Pixar
After a week of making headlines for all the wrong reasons,
Snoop Dogg is owning up to his mistake.
The Grammy winner, who last week sparked outrage for complaining that the queer representation in Pixar's 2022 feature
Lightyear made him "
scared to go to the movies" after watching the film with his grandson, has defended himself in an
Instagram post.
"I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons," Snoop wrote beneath a
Hollywood Unlocked video of T.S. Madison addressing his remarks. "All my gay friends [know] what’s up. They been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-year-old. Teach me how to learn. I'm not perfect."
The rapper ignited controversy after a recent appearance on the
It’s Giving podcast during which he recounted seeing
Lightyear with his grandson, who had questions when it was revealed that one of the animated film's protagonists has two mothers.
Snoop Dogg in New York City on May 13, 2025.
Johnny Nunez/WireImage
"'Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She's a woman,'" Snoop recalled his grandson asking.
In response, he said, he thought, "Ah s---, I didn’t come in here for this s---. I just came to watch the goddamn movie."
Snoop said he encouraged his grandson to just watch the film, but the questions didn't stop. "I'm scared to go to the movies now," Snoop said on the podcast. "Y'all throwing me in the middle of s--- that I don't have an answer for."
He added that his grandson's questions "threw me for a loop" and left him thinking, "These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don't have the answer."
The scene in question is a brief moment in the film in which Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by
Uzo Aduba) shares a kiss with her wife, and the couple are seen cradling their child.
Snoop's comments about the scene were not well received, resulting in days of social media backlash, including that in the
Hollywood Unlocked video to which Snoop responded on Wednesday.
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In the clip, TV personality and trans entertainer T.S. Madison called out the rapper, questioning why he took issue with the
Lightyear scene but doesn't mind showing "women dancing and kissing other women, dancing naked" in his music videos. She added that his comments were "rooted in a little bit of homophobia."
Snoop's remarks also caught the attention of screenwriter Lauren Gunderson, who received an additional screenplay material credit on the 2022 Pixar film. Gunderson responded to the controversy on Wednesday, saying she created the
Lightyear lesbians and
remains proud of her decision.
"A key character needed a partner, and it was so natural to write 'she' instead of 'he.' As small as that detail is in the film, I knew the representational effect it could have," Gunderson explained in a
series of posts on Threads. "Small line, big deal. I was elated that they kept it. I'm proud of it. To infinity. Love is love."
Alisha Hawthorne and Kiko Hawthorne in 'Lightyear'.
Disney
She later reacted to Snoop's response to the
Hollywood Unlocked video, reposting an article about his latest comments with several heart and rainbow emojis.
The lesbian couple were a subject of scrutiny at the time of
Lightyear's release, as their appearance not only marked Disney's first prominent display of LGBTQ+ characters, but also depicted its first same-sex kiss. The kiss was almost axed from the film's theatrical release, but a
mass uprising of employees at the House of Mouse's animation subsidiary,
Pixar, worked to reinstate it.
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In her post, Gunderson noted that she was one of many writers who touched on the
Lightyear script and did not work on the final version, but she was delighted to see that she made her mark with Alisha and her wife.
"I was proud to see a happy queer couple (even for a few seconds) on screen," she wrote. "I know they got a lot of shit for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists. It’s *not* fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat (long live Sox)."
