Snoop Dogg Denies Making Apology Comments Over Disney’s Lightyear LGBTQ Scene

After backlash over his reaction to Lightyear’s same-sex couple, Snoop Dogg’s rep clarifies that apology-style comments circulating on Instagram are fake.

The internet has been buzzing after Snoop Dogg’s remarks about LGBTQ representation in Disney and Pixar’s 2022 animated film Lightyear. Now, the rapper’s team is stepping in to clear the air: comments circulating online—allegedly showing Snoop apologizing for his stance—are fake.

Last week, the hip-hop icon made headlines when he admitted on the It’s Giving podcast that he was caught off guard while watching Lightyear with his young grandchildren. The film, a spinoff of Pixar’s Toy Story franchise, features a brief storyline about Buzz Lightyear’s best friend and commander, Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), who shares a life and a kiss with her wife, Kiko.

The moment sparked questions from Snoop’s grandchildren that left him flustered.

“My grandson, in the middle of the movie, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” the rapper recalled.

“I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,” he admitted, adding that the rapid-fire questions “fucked me up” and left him without answers.

Snoop said he tried brushing it off, telling his grandson, “Hey man, just watch the movie,” but the questions kept coming. The moment, he explained, made him feel unprepared: “It threw me for a loop. These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

Fake Apology Comments Circulate

Amid the backlash, a screenshot of Instagram comments appeared, supposedly from Snoop, saying:

“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons. All my gay friends [know] what’s up, they been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-yr-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect.”

However, his rep has since confirmed those comments were not written by him. It remains unclear who was behind the impersonation.

Writer Responds: “Love Like This Exists”

Following Snoop’s podcast remarks, screenwriter Lauren Gunderson spoke out in defense of Lightyear’s LGBTQ inclusion.

“I had very little to do with the final script, but I was proud to see a happy queer couple (even for a few seconds) onscreen,” Gunderson wrote on Instagram. “I know they got a lot of shit for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists.”

She emphasized the contrast between fiction and reality:
“It’s not fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat (long live Sox).”

The Bigger Conversation

Snoop’s reaction—and the viral fallout—spotlights the ongoing cultural debates around LGBTQ representation in family films. For some, moments like Alisha and Kiko’s relationship reflect an important step toward normalizing love in all its forms. For others, including parents and grandparents like Snoop, it raises unexpected challenges about how and when to discuss these topics with children.

For now, one thing is clear: the words of apology circulating online don’t belong to Snoop Dogg. His stance, however, has sparked conversations far beyond the movie theater—about art, inclusion, parenting, and the responsibility of stories that shape young audiences.