Redeem now - Tiffany Haddish says "Love & Basketball" actress Sanaa Lathan bit Beyoncé at a party in December 2017.
- Reports about the identity of the biter have been swirling since March, when Haddish first talked about the incident.
- Haddish said talking about the bite hasn't hurt her social life.
We finally know who bit Beyoncé.
According to Tiffany Haddish — who started this whole mystery in the first place with cryptic comments to GQ in March — "Love & Basketball" and "The Best Man Holiday" star Sanaa Lathan bit Beyoncé Knowles at that fateful party in December 2017.
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.Haddish confirmed the story with The Hollywood Reporter. When the publication's reporter suggested Lathan bit Beyoncé, Haddish concurred.
"I'm super good friends with her stepmom and her dad, and they were mad at me," Haddish said. "They were like, 'Why would you do this to the family? You know, black actresses, you guys have to stick together, it's so hard for you guys to get work as it is, why would you try to ruin her career?' But I didn't try to ruin her career."
Haddish said she tried to be discreet — which led to months of reporting and speculation about who did the biting.
"I never said her name!" Haddish told The Hollywood Reporter. "I was just trying to say how Beyoncé kept me from goin' to jail that night. I coulda just shut my whole career down."
Haddish told GQ in March that she was at the same December 2017 party where someone bit Beyonce, but she didn't identify the alleged culprit at the time.
"Beyoncé's friend walked up and was like, 'Can you believe this b---- just bit Beyoncé?'" Haddish recounted, after witnessing a scuffle by the queen bee. "Near the end of the party, Beyoncé's at the bar, so I said to Beyoncé, 'Did she really bite you?' She was like, 'Yeah.' I was like, 'She gonna get her ass beat tonight.'"
Though some people suggested Haddish leaking information about the party would keep her from being invited to future Beyoncé-adjacent events, Haddish told The Hollywood Reporter she's as popular as ever.
"I got invited to way more parties after that," she said. "It's ridiculous how many parties."
Representatives for Lathan, Haddish, and Beyoncé did not immediately respond to INSIDER's requests for comment.
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