In addition to Tahiry, Somaya also discussed the heat she has already received from being with the outspoken rapper.

"The hatred is pretty much always the same thing," she explained in an interview. "Either they think I'm trying to gain some sort of career-obviously they don't know who I am, because I was already doing it. I have accomplished everything on my own without an agent or any help. And then his ex-girlfriend [Tahiry], there's the comparisons, 'Oh you're hotter' or 'You're nothing' or 'His ex-girlfriend's prettier.' And that's really unfortunate that other people are more obsessed about that than he is or I am...I don't know anything about her. I think it's wrong that everyone is judging her, as well. She had to have been a good person for him to have been with her and I think she's beautiful. I've seen pictures of her. People move on, now everyone else needs to move on." 

"Don't worry because there's nothing to worry about," Reece said during a Budden blogcast. "And I know the feeling because I'm an artist too, when you're going through something, it does reflect on your music. But there's no need to worry about that anymore. Somaya Reece is in the building...Regardless though, with music, whether it's depressing -- the fact that you have an honest artist like Joe, is something that is very rare. And it's something you don't really see out there...Everybody is making ridiculously stupid music and I'm not gonna name names -- am I lying to you guys? I will be good to Joe, always. I am a very traditional woman. I take care of my man."

"I wouldn't be honest if there wasn't a part of me that wanted you to go, when he said, 'Oh, I've socked her before...' 'That's not right.' And it wasn't right, it was painful.

"He can say whatever about me... but there are so many women like me, in my situation, that I just feel when there is this laughter, if you are in that situation out there, it kind of lightens it."
Oprah responded by insisting her studio audience laughed because "they were uncomfortable" and because Tyson used the word "sock". She also told Givens, "I don't think that they were laughing at you, I think they were laughing at the term."

She then offered her guest a personal apology, stating, "In that moment, I will tell you, I felt that I should have said something. I felt that I should have said, 'Audience, that isn't funny...' so I regret it.
"I would say to you and every woman, who has ever been hit, I feel that I did not handle that as well as I should have and I feel that I could have gone further and should have said more to clarify that what he was doing and what he was saying was wrong.

"So I apologise to you and I apologise to every woman who has ever been in that situation."
A relieved Givens said, "Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

“I haven’t been here 72 hours and I’m being kicked out of the Four Seasons even though I paid up front and in cash. I don’t understand. I’m at the point now where I’m standing out here with millions of dollars in movies and TV specials sold and most of them done right here in Atlanta. And to be ceremoniously dismissed at a hotel is sad.”