James Corden had a very, very serious response to some “very, very serious allegations” about him and the Late Late Show segment Carpool Karaoke.
“I know this looks bad,” he said on his show Wednesday night. “But I just want to say, right now, that I always drive the car unless we’re doing something where we think it might not be safe, like a dance routine or a costume change or if I’m drunk.”
Apparently, people — a lot of people, it would seem — were upset about a video shared online. It showed Corden filming Carpool Karaoke with Justin Bieber, and even though the late-night host was sitting in the driver’s seat, the vehicle was being towed along the street. Corden was shocked that this video garnered millions of views, which is more than the views on some of his Carpool Karaoke videos, and spawned a number of media outlets to run pieces that called this “the worst lie since Santa.”
“I’m just shocked I’ve done something that upset people more than Cats,” he joked.