--- title: Jonah Hill Speaks Out: 'My Heart Is Broken' description: The actor seemed to get emotional while discussing his weekend scuffle with a paparazzo canonical: https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-04T14:11:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:12:21.541Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jonah Hill Speaks Out: 'My Heart Is Broken' og:description: The actor seemed to get emotional while discussing his weekend scuffle with a paparazzo og:url: https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ac74c87fa275349/6986961a810bbb3b55c92032/lnh1280x720-5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LNH1280X720 (5) og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jonah Hill Speaks Out: 'My Heart Is Broken' twitter:description: The actor seemed to get emotional while discussing his weekend scuffle with a paparazzo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ac74c87fa275349/6986961a810bbb3b55c92032/lnh1280x720-5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jonah Hill Addresses Homophobia Controversy: 'My Heart Is Broken' by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 4, 2014 2:11 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 4, 2014 2:11 PM CUT Renowned funny-man Jonah Hill turned serious on _The Tonight Show_ Monday,when discussing the controversy around the homophobic slur [he fired off](http://time.com/2818858/jonah-hill-homophobic-apology/ "undefined") at a paparazzo this weekend. Hill explained that the “paparazzi guy” had been following him around, attacking him and his family “personally.” “I was genuinely hurt by this and made angry by this,” the actor said. “And in response, I wanted to hurt him back, and I said the most hurtful word I couldn’t think of at that moment. And I didn’t mean this in the sense of the word, you know? I didn’t mean it in a homophobic way.” The 30-year-old actor went on to apologize, saying, “I don’t deserve or expect your forgiveness.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/"},"headline":"Jonah Hill Addresses Homophobia Controversy: 'My Heart Is Broken'","datePublished":"2014-06-04T14:11:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:12:21.541Z","description":"The actor seemed to get emotional while discussing his weekend scuffle with a paparazzo","url":"https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/","keywords":["celebrity","The Tonight Show"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ac74c87fa275349/6986961a810bbb3b55c92032/lnh1280x720-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ac74c87fa275349/6986961a810bbb3b55c92032/lnh1280x720-5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LNH1280X720 (5)","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrity/","name":"celebrity"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2821857/jonah-hill-homophobic-slur/","name":"Jonah Hill Addresses Homophobia Controversy: 'My Heart Is Broken'"}}]}] ```