Geoffrey Owens' response to a necessary particular person's beneficiant offering is elevating eyebrows.

After he admitted to experiencing monetary hardships assist in 2018, the Cosby Uncover alum—who played Elvin Tibideaux on the basic sitcom—got a check for $25,000 from Nicki Minaj to encourage him catch assist heading within the correct direction. However Geoffrey now now not too lengthy ago admitted that he didn't withhold her “handout” for himself, as a change donating the money to charity.

“It used to be a in point of fact beneficiant, comely handout,” Geoffrey said within the course of a Dec. 12 appearance on V-103 Atlanta's Enormous Tigger Morning Uncover. “However I wasn’t glad with that.”

For the 63-year-passe—who confessed to struggling to “form ends meet” after he used to be seen working at a Trader Joe's in 2018—taking Nicki's money with out incomes it through a job didn't feel appropriate on the time.

“If she had paid me $25,000 to manufacture one thing,” Geoffrey defined, “I would secure said, 'Thank you for the work, I derive.'”

Clarifying that he didn't secure her gesture “spoiled” and insisting his rejection didn't mean he used to be “now now not grateful,” the Conceal and Gaze actor went on to give some perception into why he chose to give the money to a charity.

“I felt love, smartly, yeah, I'm in deserve to a distinct amount extent,” he continued, “but there are assorted other folks that are noteworthy extra wanting this money than I’m.”