‘I can’t help it, Joy, if America has a very dirty imagination,’ gossip blogger says. By Jocelyn Vena Perez Hilton Photo: Frazer Harrison/ WireImage Perez Hilton has felt the heat since tweeting a link to a photo of Miley Cyrus that appeared to show the pop star exiting a car without any underwear on. He’s already addressed the controversy in a video statement on his website, and on Thursday he visited HLN’s “The Joy Behar Show” to try to clear the air again. The gossip blogger told Behar that people “are getting upset over an image they didn’t see.” Though he did remove the link from his Twitter, he claimed, “You didn’t see anything down there. … I can’t help it, Joy, if America has a very dirty imagination. “I feel like if everyone saw this image in question, they would clearly see that you’re not seeing anything down there that you’re not supposed to,” Hilton continued. “It’s definitely not child pornography, and it’s definitely not illegal.” Hilton says he knew that the 17-year-old singer was wearing underwear in photo, and other pictures taken at the time clearly showed that she was. “I think it’s insulting to children to accuse that of [being] child pornography,” he said. “The point of me choosing that one photo is because it was showing Miley getting out of the car in an unladylike fashion,” he explained. “And I just thought that was funny and in keeping with her shocking behavior of late, because she was very well aware that she was in a public place at a video shoot and that there were paparazzi present. “I would have posted the image on my site had I been able to, but it was taken by one photo agency that I don’t have a deal with,” he added. “So, I’ve learned my mistake in the past about using photos that I don’t have licenses to.” In the end, the gossip blogger stands by his actions, despite having removed the tweet from his site. He noted that what he did is no different than the actions Cyrus has been taking as of late, in his opinion. “It’s not actually doing anything worse than Miley herself has been doing recently,” he argued. “From grinding up on her 40-something-year-old director to pole-dancing to all the over-sexualized things that she has been doing and turning herself into this creature.” Do you think Perez Hilton was wrong to post the photo of Miley? Share your opinions below. Related Artists Miley Cyrus
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Perez Hilton Addresses Miley Cyrus Photo Controversy On ‘Joy Behar Show’
