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Tiffany Haddish is getting candid on whether she believes American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made it to the moon.
On the latest episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the Girls Trip star, 45, answered a question on whether she was a “conspiracy theorist” and revealed whether she believed in the 1969 moon landing of the Apollo 11.
“Tiffany, do you believe in the moon landing? Kim Kardashian doesn’t,” host Andy Cohen asked the actress. “[Do you believe] that it happened?”
“I believe that there’s people living on the moon right now,” she replied. “Do I believe we were there? No.”
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“I don’t believe we [were] on the moon. I believe there’s people there though, okay,” the comedian confirmed.
This prompted one of Haddish’s friends, who was been behind the show’s bar during the segment, to ask her if she really didn’t “believe we landed on the moon?” Another chimed in, “Wait, you don’t believe Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon?”
Before Cohen, 57, or her friends could ask anymore questions, she added, “I think, I think. We’ll talk about this later.”
She isn’t the only one who has famously shared that she doesn’t think the 1969 moon landing was real. In September 2024, Ariana Grande was asked in a Vanity Fair Lie Detector video by her Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo about whether she believed “the moon landing was fake,” to which she responded, “No.”
However, the person administering the lie detector test noted that they were “picking up some deception” in her answer.
“That’s hilarious,” Erivo, 38, said, before asking again, “Do you think the moon landing was fake?”
“No, not until now. Not until Stephanie put that in me,” Grande responded laughing, referencing the person carrying out the test.
SKIMS founder Kim, 45 also shared in the Oct. 30 episode of The Kardashians that she didn’t believe it either, saying, “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself.”
She then listed one of her reasons for thinking this way — which has been debunked by scientists in the past. “There’s no gravity on the moon — why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?”
Scientists previously noted that the flag wasn’t blowing as it was held up by an angled rod — and the shoes that Aldrin and Armstrong wore on the moon were left behind, not kept in a museum back on Earth.
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As for why the stars weren’t visible, that’s because of the shutter speed used by the cameras to compensate for the amount of light being reflected from the sun. There’s also a large body of physical evidence including rocks taken from the visit, subsequent photos of the landing sites that prove it happened and first hand accounts of the landing from the astronauts who were there when it happened.
Aldrin, one of the astronauts on Apollo 11, told PEOPLE last year during the 55th anniversary of the moon landing that he had “many memories about the mission.”
“Getting to and getting off the moon — and a lot of them are about teamwork, mission focus, just doing our jobs right, not letting people down,” he said.
“Gratitude, I think, might be my strongest feeling, even now — gratitude for all those who made that incredible event in my life, our lives, the nation’s life happen. God looked out for us, for sure,” he added.
