Naturi Naughton is praising her Power co-star, Omari Hardwick, after show producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson shared his belief that the actor “overvalues himself.”
Following Jackson’s assertion made on The Breakfast Club this week, Naughton spoke to TMZ at the I Will Graduate Awards in Brooklyn, where she called 50’s assessment “insane.”
“That’s insane to me,” the actress said of Jackson’s claim that Hardwick overvalues himself. “Omari is, literally, the epitome of Power. Omari Hardwick started this amazing journey, and I don’t know all of what happened with 50 and O, but I’ll say this; I love Omari Hardwick, he’s an amazingly talented human, and he’s also a good person, but there would be no Power without Ghost, right? So, I hope that they can find love and peace between each other, because much love to 50 and to O.”
50’s comments followed Hardwick’s assertion that STARZ underpaid him as the “face of the network,” saying that 50 and co-producer Courtney Kemp were aware because they were “higher-up in the company.” Jackson didn’t take kindly to being name-dropped in this context, because “you leave it like it’s me not giving you the money,” he argued.