The View’s Sunny Hostin Clarifies Viral Cornell 7 Statements, Reveals Cynthia Erivo Reached Out with Advice

Sunny Hostin is addressing her controversial comments about the Cornell 7 on The View, and she’s revealing the celebrity who reached out to her as a result of the statements she made.

If you have not heard, several Cornell University frat students are currently facing intense public scrutiny amid a high-profile civil lawsuit and a reopened criminal investigation into allegations of gang rape. The allegations date back to 2024, and have gone viral on social media in recent weeks.

What Did Sunny Hostin Originally Say About the Cornell 7 on The View?

Sunny made several comments last week that have gone viral from The View, sharing, “She allowed other boys and consented to other boys snorting ketamine off of her body. Under New York law, voluntary intoxication or drug use that merely impairs judgment does not legally constitute an inability to consent to sexual activity.”

“If you voluntarily ingest drugs, voluntarily take alcohol, you can agree to have threesomes. Which, in her statement, she agreed to have two separate threesomes. There is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would’ve brought forth a case,” she continued.

Sunny Hostin Clarified Her Remarks This Week

On the Behind the Table podcast, Sunny shared, “I see things, when it comes to the law, sort of black-and-white. I apply the facts as I know them to the law. It’s my job, in a sense, on this panel. When I first talked about this topic on the panel, I led with the law. Because everyone else had spoken emotionally about it.”

“I needed, I felt, to bring us back to this New York law, which is really terrible and needs to be changed. In the second segment, I was comfortable enough after I’d spoken to the law, to speak about the moral issue, because the morality of what happened is very different from the legality of what happened,” she shared.

Cynthia Erivo Apparently Contacted Sunny Hostin

Cynthia apparently contacted Sunny after she had “only seen the clip” of her speaking out about the cast on The View.

Sunny shared: “She called me and said, ‘Sis, I know you and I know your heart and your life’s work has been about protecting women and children. But, the clip that I saw doesn’t reflect who you are.’ She then said, ‘I’m a blunt person and you are a blunt person.’ That’s why we get along so well, because we get the BS out when we talk to each other. She said she’s had to learn to give people her opinion in a way that they can receive it rather than just be blunt.”

She revealed what Cynthia told her: “Instead of leading with the law, I need to lead with empathy so that people can receive the message about the law. That’s why the next time we talked about it, I led with that so that people would be able to receive the facts that, in New York, if you’re voluntarily intoxicated you’d have to be completely passed out, affirmatively say no, or you would have to be drugged involuntarily to prove sexual assault.”

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