It was the scandal that rocked and shocked Los Angeles and the NBA. In 2014, as the LA Clippers were fighting to become NBA champions, audio recordings of racist comments made by the team's owner Donald Sterling were leaked to the press. It's the subject of a new FX limited series, "Clipped," on Hulu.
On The Red Carpet spoke with the stars at the series premiere in Hollywood. "I remember when it happened and everybody was talking about it. My coffee shop, you know, everyone was talking about it," said Ed O'Neill, who plays Donald Sterling.
"I read the tapes, when the tapes came out, and I thought, ohhh that isn't good, you know. This may end badly." Jacki Weaver plays Donald's wife, Shelly Sterling.
She told On The Red Carpet that at the time, a lot of people had the wrong idea about Shelly. "I'm what everyone thinks is the quiet little elderly wife who's suddenly had enough of what she's had to put up with, which is the scandal and this girlfriend who's muscled her way in," Weaver said. "Shelly Sterling, in the end, comes out on top 'cause she says 'hang on you lost the team, but I'm a half owner and I'm selling it for $2 billion.
'" One of the more layered characters in "Clipped" is that of Sterling's assistant and mistress, V. Stiviano, played by Cleopatra Coleman. She's the one who made the recordings of Sterling.
"When the scandal took place, I was living in LA, I had just moved here. And there was a lot of talk about V., you know, as a certain type of person.
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