On a radio show, comedian Spanky Hayes claims Tyrese Gibson consented to sex in order to secure the lead role in “Baby Boy.”
“I had an audition it was 30 stars there. There were so many stars there that I was like, I don’t [expletive] belong here. . . . Three weeks later, it was me and another person – now we’re the best two people that’s there. He gets up he reads, I’m thinking ‘[expletive] I’m not gonna get his.’ Then I get up and I read, and I shock myself.
Then Hayes claims that a male producer blatantly stated that he was torn between who would be selected for the role – but the person willing to perform a sexual favor would get the edge.
“I busted out laughing because a [expletive] never talk to me like that,” Hayes said. “And what [expletive] me up though is that other dude wasn’t laughing. . . . And I looked at both of them, and was like ‘aww hell naw’. And to keep it real, he got the leading role . … BABY BOY.”
In a video he posted on social media Tyrese called Hayes a liar and vowed to do everything he could to ruin his career.
There are some dumb people in this world who do some dumb [expletive]. What man wakes up and says ‘today, I want to end my career. Today I want to stop my kids from eatin’. Today, I want to career suicide.
You know you [expletive] up right.
The role for baby boy was written for Tupac. When Tupac was killed he [writer/director John Singleton] only had one person in mind to play ‘Baby Boy.’ It wasn’t them. It wasn’t you. [N-word expletive] it was me.”
The one audition that I did was me – who already had the role – showing up to an audition to find the woman who would end up playing my mother. We ended up discovering my favorite woman in the whole world – Taraji P. Henson.
In the 8 minute video, Tyrese calls Hayes desperate and thirsty for fame – and repeatedly promises to use all of his connections to block Hayes from getting his foot in the door in Hollywood because Hayes tried to lie his way to the top.
“You just said some dumb [expletive]. You didn’t have a career to begin with – but now it’s over.”
