Montel Apologizes for Threatening to Blow up Intern
December 3, 2007

Montel Williams, best known for his cool, calm, and collected demeanor on his popular self-titled daytime talk show, lost his cool on Friday and threatened to blow up a high school newspaper intern in Savannah, Georgia. As Montel Williams quickly found out over the weekend, the threat to blow anything up in today's heated climate is taken more seriously than in years past. After the dust settled on Montel's burst of anger, Williams admitted he was completely in the wrong and issued an apology to Savannah Morning-News intern, Courtney Scott.

The problem started earlier in the day when Montel was in town to promote a free prescription drug program for low-income patients. As reports claim, Scott ticked off Montel with a question about drug companies and profits as compared to research and development. When asked, Montel Williams responded, "I'm here as a patient advocate talking about the fact that medications available today are saving people's lives, that's what's saving mine and after that, this interview is done." Montel, who suffers from Mutiple Sclerosis, apparently stormed out without answering further questioning.

However, later that day, as MSNBC reports, Montel got angrier when he spotted Courtney Scott at the hotel he was staying at for the event. According to reports, however, Courtney Scott and her newspaper crew were on location to cover a completely different story, which had nothing to do with Montel. According to Joseph Cosey, a web-content provider for the newspaper, Williams didn’t check on why the paper was on site and apparently confronted the intern with a few harsh words, " As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott's face pointing his finger telling her ‘Don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up’. At this time he was randomly pointing at all of us."

According to MSNBC, after learning Scott's reason for being at the hotel, Montel issued an apology, "I mistakenly thought the reporter and photographer in question were at the hotel to confront me about some earlier comments. I was wrong, and I apologize for my overreaction."