Judge Mathis has responded to Judge Joe Brown after the disgraced television judge referred to his wife as a “h*e.”
“Well, I don’t know if his wife is a h*e or not. If she takes money … she might be,” Brown said during a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue.
After catching wind of Brown’s remarks, Judge Mathis wasted no time in clapping back.
“If Judge Brown felt that I disrespected him when I responded to his attack, I apologize. Because that’s not what I wanted to do. Quite frankly, I don’t want to fight him. I don’t want to go back and forth,” he told the platform that initially aired Brown’s remarks.
Judge Mathis responds to Judge Joe Brown for disrespecting his wife and calling her a H*e
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“Lions don’t fight monkeys, it’s unfair. And to put it in street vernacular, gangsters don’t fight lames. In my case, an OG ain’t fighting a lame. So, I don’t want to fight with him, I want to give him some care! Something is wrong! The man put my wife’s name in his mouth in the context of a h*e when I had mentioned him calling [Kamala Harris] a he and I said he better not say it about my wife.”
Judge Mathis and his wife, Linda Mathis, recently reconciled after she filed for divorce following 39 years of marriage in August 2024.
“[I] felt like I did when I lost my mother,” he told PEOPLE earlier this month. “That’s the feeling I had. And I’d do anything to get my mother back. So, I did anything to get my wife back.”