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Seinfeld star Michael Richards has rare outing with wife Beth Skipp after reflecting on past racist rant Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By JACQUELINE LINDENBERG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 18:32 EST, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 18:43 EST, 22 November 2024 e-mail View comments Michael Richards was seen on a rare outing with his wife, Beth Skipp, as they stepped out in the Pacific Palisades on Friday - just months after he spoke out on his past racist rant.
The Seinfeld star, 75 - who released his memoir Entrances And Exits earlier this year in June - enjoyed a lowkey stroll with Skipp in a quiet neighborhood. The actor previously revealed that 'anger' was behind the 2006 outburst that took place during a stand-up comedy show at the Laugh Factory - prompting Richards to disappear from Hollywood. Michael dressed down for the daytime excursion by sporting a black button up as well as a pair of dark navy trousers.
The comedian's wife, Beth - whom he tied the knot with in 2010 - donned an olive green jacket that was zipped up at the front to keep her warm in the cooler weather. Michael and Beth share son Antonio, 14, and he is also father to daughter, Sophia - whom he welcomed with ex-wife Cathleen Lyons. Michael Richards, 75, was seen on a rare outing with his wife, Beth Skipp, as they stepped out in the Pacific Palisades on Friday - just months after he spoke out on his past racist rant The star's latest rare outing comes five months after he spoke out about his past racist slurs that took place while performing at a comedy club back in 2006.
Read More Seinfeld's Michael Richards seen for first time since cancer reveal In June - while promoting his memoir Entrances And Exits - Michael discussed his decision to step away from the spotlight following the incident, and explained that 'anger' had been the cause of the outburst. While sitting down with Today's Hoda Kotb, he was asked if anything has changed since the 'racist rant.' 'Oh, the difference.
.. [I'm] probably more aware of myself.
Anger, looking at it very closely, it's something that's always with us, certainly with me.' Nearly two decades earlier, video of the moment emerged and showed the actor responding to a heckler in the audience and said, 'Throw his ass out..
.He's a n*****! Look there's a n*****!' He also told Kotb, '[It's] not as horrible as it was 18 years ago, anger had a hold of me, and I cancelled myself out.' 'Take an exodus, get away from showbusiness and see what the heck is going on inside me to have been so despicable that night and losing my cool, and hurting people.
' In regards to if he has made 'amends,' Richards expressed, 'I think so. Certainly getting to a place where I could forgive myself because I have to move on to be true blue about that.' The Seinfeld star - who released his memoir Entrances And Exits earlier this year in June - enjoyed a lowkey stroll with Skipp in a quiet neighborhood The star's latest, rare outing comes five months after he spoke out about his past racist slurs that took place while performing at a comedy club back in 2006; seen earlier this month in Hollywood Michael also got candid about his 2018 prostate cancer diagnosis and admitted, 'I thought I was going to go, really, I had given into that.
' 'Then I found out that if we move fast enough, we could get at the cancer, and I had a great surgeon at Cedar Sinai in Los Angeles.' 'Oh my, I made it, you know, I beat it. And that certainly motivated me to get at the book because I went through a big review of my life,' Michael said, referencing to the memoir.
The star further reflected on the past incident during an interview with People in May and stated, 'My anger was all over the place and it came through hard and fast.' 'Anger is quite a force. But it happened.
Rather than run from it, I dove into the deep end and tried to learn from it. It hasn't been easy.' 'Oh, the difference.
.. [I'm] probably more aware of myself.
Anger, looking at it very closely, it's something that's always with us, certainly with me,' he said; seen in 2002 in Aspen 'Crisis managers wanted me to do damage control. But as far as I was concerned, the damage was inside of me.' Michael then stated that he is 'not racist' and added that he has 'nothing against Black people.
' 'The man who told me I wasn't funny had just said what I'd been saying to myself for a while. I felt put down. I wanted to put him down,' Richards reflected.
While stopping by The View earlier this year, the comedian stated that he 'went into character' during a discussion about the outburst. 'Now, first, I must say, look, I'm not a normal man. There's a lot of eccentricity going on in my kind of comedy.
' 'And, certainly, I could never have created a character like Kramer without being slightly touched, so I went into character. And I work in a comedy club environment where the N-word is used a lot, and I decided I would let it loose,' he added. When one of the hosts, Joy Behar, said the word is 'not used anymore.
Those days are over,' Richards replied with, 'For me, they certainly are.' He then opened up about leaving Hollywood and expressed, 'When that rage came about - and the rage is channeled into a character. I am trying to perform in my own way, at first.
' The star further reflected on the past incident during an interview with People in May and stated, 'My anger was all over the place and it came through hard and fast'; seen in April in L.A. Richards is known for his role as Cosmo Kramer on the hit sitcom, Seinfeld, which aired from 1989 through 1998 'Well, I felt like I got hit, so I'm hitting back.
That person went low, I'm going lower. And I'm very emotional about it still, after 18 years, you can feel the passion that I am - maybe it's because I'm Italian.' He labeled the incident as 'horrific' - and notably issued an apology on David Letterman shortly after the racial outburst decades ago.
However, the Seinfeld alum explained that the anger 'doesn't go away' and that it is 'the color of my fur.' 'I went personal, personal, then I started seeing it collectively, and the rage behind the wars and I'm there in a club making war on my fellow man. Those were big considerations for me after that.
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