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In his first live television interview in years, former 'Seinfeld' star Michael Richards reflected on TODAY about a 2006 racist incident at a comedy club that effectively derailed his career. 'Anger had a hold of me,' he told Hoda Kotb on June 4. 'I canceled myself out. Take an exodus, get away from show business and see what the heck is going on inside me to have been so despicable that night, losing my cool and hurting people.
He also appeared on Jerry Seinfeld's show 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' in 2012, when he said was 'busted up' after the 2006 controversy. Richards enjoyed his first foray back into the public eye in 18 years in May, when he made a red carpet appearance with Jerry Seinfeld at the premiere of Seinfeld's Netflix movie, 'Unfrosted.' Seinfeld also wrote the foreword for Richards' new book.
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