Shaquille O'Neal Blames Olive Oil Cleanse for His 'No. 2 Run' Off Set During Live TV: 'I Had to Go So Bad'

Shaquille O’Neal is breaking nan seal connected what really happened during a viral segment connected Inside nan NBA.

On April 21, during a unrecorded broadcast of Inside nan NBA, nan 53-year-old hoops hallway of famer abruptly scurried disconnected nan workplace group pinch an evident bath emergency.

The incident instantly sent his co-hosts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson into a laughing fresh arsenic they teased O'Neal astir his mid-show bath crisis, while a clip of nan incident later went viral connected societal media.

"He's been drinking oliva lipid to cleanable his gut, he's cleaning his gut each right," Smith quipped earlier O'Neal later explained, “That was my number one, drinking that water.” As he returned to his seat, he apologized by saying, “Sorry astir that, America."

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On Thursday, May 22, nan four-time NBA champion appeared connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and explained to nan big what really went down during that on-air gaffe.

“I was drinking a batch of h2o that day, truthful I cognize I had nan No. 2 tally but it was really a No. 1, let’s conscionable get that retired nan way,” O'Neal told Fallon, 50, while besides noting he had been drinking a batch of oliva lipid astatine nan time.

“What is going on? And why were you drinking oliva oil?” Fallon asked.

“I’m drinking oliva lipid because I want to beryllium sexy,” O'Neal replied, pointing to himself. “That’s what it said connected Instagram, it said if you portion oliva lipid for 14 days, it’ll clear worldly retired and you’ll get yourself a level stomach. So, I was trying it.”

Fallon collapsed retired into laughter astatine nan explanation. “Oh my god,” he said earlier telling nan retired jock he didn’t request to return portion successful nan oliva lipid trend, which has dispersed connected societal media successful caller years aft various celebrities person said they’ve adopted nan regular daily for a assortment of reasons.

Consuming a mates tablespoons of oliva lipid a time tin supply immoderate wellness benefits, according to The Cleveland Clinic.

While laughing astir nan Inside nan NBA incident, O'Neal abruptly confessed to Fallon that he had conscionable lied during their interview: “Okay, I conscionable made a mistake. I lied to you connected nationalist television.”

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Fallon past showed nan assemblage a image of what happened nan adjacent nighttime connected Inside nan NBA when producers rolled retired a portable toilet adjacent to nan panelists’ table for big to usage successful lawsuit of different emergency. 

The precocious nighttime big past called Inside nan NBA “one of nan astir entertaining shows” connected tv correct now. “I for illustration it because I ne'er cognize what’s going to happen,” Fallon said. “Nothing’s predictable.”