{"id":268364,"date":"2019-02-26T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1018975"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:33:00","slug":"jennifer-esposito-sounds-off-on-the-bradley-cooper-ha-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jennifer-esposito-sounds-off-on-the-bradley-cooper-ha-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Esposito Sounds Off on the Bradley Cooper &#8220;Ha&#8221; Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.146003262643\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016611\/rs_634x1024-160711134731-634.Jennifer-Esposito.ms.071116.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Esposito\" alt=\"Jennifer Esposito\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Monica Schipper\/Getty Images for Eclair Naturals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.50212404418\">\n<p><strong>Jennifer Esposito<\/strong> is clarifying what she meant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1018494\/bradley-cooper-s-ex-wife-jennifer-esposito-reacts-to-those-lady-gaga-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when she commented &#8220;Ha&#8221;<\/a> on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_spade\">David Spade<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Instagram from the night of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2019_oscars\">2019 Oscars<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To backtrack, Spade posted a photo of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lady_gaga\">Lady Gaga<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bradley_cooper\">Bradley Cooper<\/a><\/strong> performing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1018029\/bradley-cooper-and-lady-gaga-s-chemistry-ignites-a-frenzy-after-their-2019-oscars-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar-winning song &#8220;Shallow&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0that involved\u00a0the same type of chemistry they shared in the film\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>. Spade captioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuSunBWB8C2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the photo<\/a>, &#8220;Is there any chance these 2 aren&#8217;t f&#8211;king?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, her comment has been the &#8220;Ha&#8221; heard round the world and her brief marriage to Cooper has sparked some Google searches and in-depth analysis to some remarks she made in her 2011 memoir,\u00a0<em>Jennifer<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Way.<\/em>\u00a0Now, the former\u00a0<em>Blue Bloods<\/em> star is coming forward to tell the world loud and clear exactly what she meant when she said &#8220;Ha.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She began the 3 minute and 40 second video by explaining the attitude of her &#8220;Ha,&#8221; which had the tone of an impromptu and lighthearted laugh, not something villainous or contemptuous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was towards David Spade&#8217;s very outward statement about something about an ex, and I literally laughed at him because he was so bold in what he was saying and I thought it was funny,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m allowed to think something is funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>&#8220;When you come and attack a person for saying &#8216;Ha&#8217;&#8230;we have so many things going on in our country and in our world that need attention,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I wish you would spend a minute of this insanity, this nonsense, on things that are really important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Esposito called out females in particular for &#8220;coming after&#8221; her for what she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019125\/rs_1024x759-190225154852-1024-jennifer-esposito-bradley-cooper-lady-gaga.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Jennifer Esposito, Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper\" alt=\"Jennifer Esposito, Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">ABC\/Ed Herrera; Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19\">\n<p>As it turns out, the\u00a0<em>Crash<\/em> star apparently didn&#8217;t even watch the Oscars. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what went on, I don&#8217;t care what went on. I commented on something that I thought was funny,&#8221; she declared.<\/p>\n<p>Esposito said she felt it was &#8220;psychotic&#8221; that people would make &#8220;judgement calls about me or them or the people that the comment was about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although she alludes to Cooper throughout her video, she never mentions him nor Gaga by name.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old went on to talk about her\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling book that was &#8220;based on my journey with Celiac Disease after I almost died.&#8221; She expressed frustration that people misconstrued some comments in the book and focus on something &#8220;so silly and demeaning and stupid of a relationship I had 11 years ago.&#8221; To all of that, she says, &#8220;f&#8211;k you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>She wrote in <em>Jennifer&#8217;s Way\u00a0<\/em>about one certain relationship she had, but never names any names. She wrote in the book that this mystery man showed an &#8220;entire marching band squad of red flags&#8221; and had a &#8220;mean, cold side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;This is horrible behavior&#8221; and promised that she was not going to &#8220;sit quietly and not answer you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Esposito went on, &#8220;I literally said &#8216;Ha.&#8217; It&#8217;s two letters and for that you make character judgments?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actress concluded, &#8220;I feel bad for those people who are involved on the other side of the &#8216;Ha&#8217; because it wasn&#8217;t at them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1018975\/jennifer-esposito-sounds-off-on-the-bradley-cooper-ha-comments?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Schipper\/Getty Images for Eclair Naturals Jennifer Esposito is clarifying what she meant when she commented &#8220;Ha&#8221; on David Spade&#8216;s Instagram from the night of the 2019 Oscars. To backtrack, Spade posted a photo of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performing their Oscar-winning song &#8220;Shallow&#8221;\u00a0that involved\u00a0the same type of chemistry they shared in the film\u00a0A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 20:42:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}