John Legend addresses racist paparazzo calling him a 'monkey' (Video)

John Legend has addressed the racist remarks allegedly uttered by a paparazzo last week when he and wife Chrissy Teigen were in New York.

As we reported, Teigen relayed the story about some offensive things a photog said when they landed in the Big Apple on Jan. 19.

The model recalled the pap asking her "if we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?"

Over the weekend Legend responded to that pap's racist question and what he and Teigen thought when they heard it.

"We were right next to each other and we looked at each other like, 'Did he really just say that?' And he really said it. He basically called me a monkey," Legend said during an interview with Variety at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

"Black folks have had to deal with being called monkeys for a long time and dehumanization has always been a method of racism and subjugation of black people," he continued, before adding, "I'm not hurt by someone saying that to me because I'm smarter, I'm stronger. I look down on that person that would say something like that, but it's a shame that still exists."

Both Legend and Teigen attended the women's marches on Saturday. He marched in Park City, Utah, where the film festival took place while his wife hit the streets of Washington D.C.

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