Mike Ward denies rumors that ex-hockey players Maxim Lapierre and Guillaume Latendresse engaged in inappropriate behavior during their recent appearance on the popular podcast Listening.
Hours after its live broadcast on Sunday, the episode featuring the hosts of The Blue Pocket has been removed from all platforms.
Online, Internet users criticized Maxim Lapierre and Guillaume Latendresse for having intimidated Mike Ward, for example by putting their fingers in his mouth and insulting him.
The withdrawal of the episode fueled speculation that the comedian had not appreciated the behavior of his guests, which the main party denied.
PHOTO TAKEN FROM THE BLUE POCKET TWITTER ACCOUNT
Maxim Lapierre and Guillaume Latendresse
According to Mike Ward, they were the ones who asked to remove the controversial episode, regretting their drunken state. “You know how it is when you lose a brush, then you feel bad. Faque they were like c*liss can you remove it? Honestly, I said “yes, I think it’s better to remove the episode” because otherwise the guys won’t be happy when they see that,” explained the comedian in a video relayed Tuesday on social networks .
“They wanted to show me that they could drink like men, but instead they drank like children,” he said with a laugh. They escaped it. »
For their part, Maxim Lapierre and Guillaume Latendresse recognized that “the last half hour of the podcast was getting longer. »
“It was guys in the back of a tavern, it was no longer a podcast. We decided that it didn’t make sense to broadcast that,” said Maxim Lapierre at the microphone of The Blue Pocket.