'I was hurt and humiliated': Geoffrey Owens says he would happily work at Trader Joe's again despite job-shaming controversy
After former 'The Cosby Show' actor Geoffrey Owens was job-shamed for being spotted in a Trader Joe's bagging groceries, he has spoken out and now said that he would return to his old job except with another approach. He recently said: "My calling is as an artist. I don’t want to work at Trader Joe’s only because that’s not my calling, but I am willing to go back to that or any similar job if I have to. And this time, I would do it with a lot less insecurity and awkwardness and discomfort than I did the first time. When I took the job at Trader Joe’s, it was rather uncomfortable and awkward, thinking that people might recognize me and that this kind of thing might conceivably happen. If I ever go back to a regular job, it’s going so be so much better."
Owens told PEOPLE in an interview that he had been "hurt" and "humiliated" after the pictures of him working for the department store surfaced online and went viral. The actor used to play Elvin Tibideaux on The Cosby Show between the years of 1985 and 1992. He told the publication: "The words they used to describe me were so demeaning. It hurt."
