Tiffany Haddish responds amid backlash to her Zimbabwe grocery store video: 'I am demystifying some bulls---'

"I have been eyes full of tears finding out the truth," Haddish said of her reaction to the supermarket. "The media be lying."

Tiffany Haddish is standing her ground amid criticism for her Zimbabwe grocery story video.

Over the weekend, the Girls Trip comedian shared a TikTok video of herself strolling through the aisles of a supermarket in the country’s capital city, Harare, while marveling at the size of the store and numerous products available. The video was swiftly met with criticism from social media users, who called Haddish’s reaction to the store "ignorant," and labeled the video as "misguided."

After one X (formerly Twitter) user reshared a snippet of the video with the caption, “Tiffany Haddish is surprised that there’s a grocery stores in Africa..? What’s wrong with these people?," Haddish was quick to defend herself.

“I am an American a Black one at that and Told for years that people are starving in Africa, showed pictures of babies with flies on them,” she wrote on X. “Told crazy stories of how they kill each other and there is war everyday there.”

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Of her trip to Zimbabwe, she added, "I asked my Black friends to go with me and they were scared. We got here and I have been eyes full of tears finding out the truth. The media be lying. I thought I would share cause I know people in the USA that believe Africans don’t have anything.”

In several additional posts, Haddish expanded on her desire to shut down misconceptions about Africa, and pointed out that the heavily-circulated clip is only a fraction of the full video.

"If they would have showed you the whole video you would have seen me say I am demystifying some bulls--- that we have been told and showed in America,” she wrote.

Representatives for Haddish did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment.

The Sunday TikTok sees Haddish walking through the grocery store while reacting with shock to its products.

"Hey y’all, I'm out here in Zimbabwe, Harare, and look at the grocery store,” she begins the video. “They got a grocery store! It's beautiful… Look at this grocery store, it's huge! It's absolutely humongous. In Africa, baby. Believe it.”

She later says, “I just like demystifying s---,” before showing off some select products for the camera, noting, "It don't smell bad. They got the sodas. They got a whole wall of alcohol. They got a frozen section. Unlike the grocery stores at home, they actually sell dishes.”

Haddish also points out the registers at the front of the store, saying, “Ain’t no different from home,” before exiting the supermarket.

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The Haunted Mansion actress was also criticized in the comments section of the video, including a TikTok user who asked, “Did you think we ate grass?” Haddish responded, "No. But the media had me thinking all of your foods are purchased in out door markets with goats and cows just hanging out waiting to be slaughtered. With all kinds of smells and flies everywhere.’

Haddish is no stranger to confronting critics and, earlier this year, admitted that she has even gone as far as to hunt down commenters’ personal information to give them a call.

"Oh, I have called people, honey,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “They be shocked that I called. They’ll be like, ‘I can’t believe you even saw that.’ You did a whole video, bitch! You made a full, five-minute video! On the internet, people think they can just say whatever and you not gonna say anything. I try my best not to, but I’m a human being.”

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