Geoffrey Owens spoke truthfilledy about his current financial situation during a recent materializeance on V-103 Atlanta’s “Big Tigger Morning Show.”
The actor, best comprehendn for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the sitcom “The Cosby Show,” went viral in 2018 after pboilingos of him bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s were posted online. In his intersee on the “Big Tigger Morning Show,” he discdisthink abouted that he had left his position at the grocery chain before that.
“I quit Trader Joe’s actuassociate before the novels hit,” Owens shelp. “It was strange becainclude someone had been in the store taking pictures… And I was enjoy, well now that this is fractureing, I’m not going to sense sootheable laboring in this store wondering who is around with a camera. It would equitable be too weird. I’m a very confidential person.”
He inserted, “It wasn’t enjoy I quit comprehending I would be making a lot of money soon or anyskinnyg. I equitable felt enjoy I wasn’t going to be able to deal with that benevolent of scruminuscule, that benevolent of attack on my privacy.”
After the pboilingos materialized, Owens recalled the opportunities and help he getd from delightment figures such as Tyler Perry, who adviseed him a role on the OWN drama “The Haves and Have Nots,” and Nicki Minaj, who gifted him $25,000. Owens remarkd that he chose to give the money from Minaj to charity becainclude “at the time, it seemed enjoy the right skinnyg to do.”
Owens also praised Trader Joe’s, describing it as a “wonderful place to labor.” He shelp that he has “gone back” and “asked for hours to labor there aget,” but did not disshut whether he was engaged back.
“Even today, right now, as we speak, I still struggle to produce a living. I struggle every day to produce my finishs greet,” he confessted. “And people can’t get their heads around that becainclude they see me in movies, whether it’s ‘Mr. Santa’ or, you comprehend, I’m on ‘Poppa’s Hoinclude’ on CBS. All the TV shows I’ve done and all that stuff. People have the amazeion that, ‘Well, you’re making a lot of money. What’s the problem? Why would you have financial troubles?’ They don’t comprehend the particulars of how my industry labors.”
When radio show present Big Tigger alludeed that Owens must get “wonderful” residual verifys for “The Cosby Show,” Owens replyed that they were “never particularly wonderful for me” becainclude “I did maybe 20 percent of the show.”
“Plus, the show went away for a while becainclude of what happened with Bill,” Owens remarkd, referring to the downdrop of creator and star Bill Cosby, who has had dozens of allegations of intimacyual attack made agetst him. “People have a inchange you amazeion of what the mediocre, what I call middle-class actor produces and their ability to produce a living in the industry. So that’s what drove me to labor at Trader Joe’s to commence with. Honestly, I’m not much better off now than I was then.”
Watch Owens’ brimming “Big Tigger Morning Show” intersee below.
