{"id":822987,"date":"2021-09-28T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=822987"},"modified":"2021-09-28T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:59:12","slug":"shaq-denounces-celebrity-status-celebrities-are-going-freaking-crazy-and-i-dont-want-to-be-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shaq-denounces-celebrity-status-celebrities-are-going-freaking-crazy-and-i-dont-want-to-be-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq Denounces Celebrity Status: \u2018Celebrities Are Going Freaking Crazy And I Don\u2019t Want To Be One\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshaq-denounces-celebrity-status-celebrities-are-going-freaking-crazy-and-i-dont-want-to-be-one%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=822987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shaq-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former NBA star Shaquille O\u2019Neal no longer wants to be considered a celebrity in light of \u201ccrazy\u201d things that many celebrities are doing in today\u2019s world and how they treat people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese celebrities are going freaking crazy and I don\u2019t want to be one. I denounce my celebrity-ness today. I\u2019m done with it,\u201d O\u2019Neal <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/24\/shaq-is-retiring-from-celebrity-status-out-of-their-mind\/\">told<\/a> The New York Post.&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t want to be in that category. Celebrities are crazy, they really are. Don\u2019t call me that anymore. These people are out of their freaking mind with how they treat people, what they do, what they say. That\u2019s never been me. I never want to be looked at like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post noted that since retiring from the NBA, O\u2019Neal has focused on helping others and is known for performing random acts of kindness.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlighted one such instance when O\u2019Neal bought a stranger an engagement ring at a jewelry store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went in there to get some loop earrings and I seen the guy and he was just so shy and he was saying [to the cashier], \u2018Hey, how much do I owe to pay off the ring?\u2019 I said, \u2018My man, how much is the ring?\u2019\u201d O\u2019Neal said, later adding that the kind gesture \u201cis just something I do everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m into making people happy, so whenever I leave the house I just try and do a good deed. I didn\u2019t mean for that to get out. That\u2019s not why I do it\u2026 The guy just came in, he was a young kid, hardworking guy,\u201d Shaq said.&nbsp;\u201cI was like, you know what, \u2018Tell your girlfriend I got it, I\u2019ll take care of it.\u2019 At first he didn\u2019t want to take it,\u201d O\u2019Neal recalled, later adding, \u201cI\u2019m just trying to make people smile, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0961538461538\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to make people smile\u2026 That&#8217;s all.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHAQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHAQ<\/a> helped a young man out at a local jewelry store by paying for his engagement ring. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eK8n0YHGb7\">pic.twitter.com\/eK8n0YHGb7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1379664898934796290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>O\u2019Neal has at times spoken up for values that many celebrities are quiet on, like the issue of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shaq-blasts-china-were-going-to-say-whatever-we-want-to-say-when-we-want-to-say-it\">highlighted<\/a> how O\u2019Neal spoke out against China over the controversy back in 2019 when Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a tweet in support of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs American people, we do a lot of business in China,\u201d O\u2019Neal said. \u201cAnd they know and understand our values and we understand their values. And one of our best values in America is free speech. We\u2019re allowed to say what we want to say and we\u2019re allowed to speak up on injustices, and that\u2019s just how it goes. And if people don\u2019t understand that, that\u2019s something that they have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaryl Morey was right,\u201d O\u2019Neal said. \u201cWhenever you see something going on wrong anywhere in the world, you should have the right to say that\u2019s not right, and that\u2019s what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, we have the right to speak,\u201d O\u2019Neal continued. \u201cAnd especially with social media, we\u2019re going to say whatever we want to say, when we want to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA star Shaquille O\u2019Neal no longer wants to be considered a celebrity in light of \u201ccrazy\u201d things that many celebrities are doing in today\u2019s world and how they treat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}