It's been an interestingweek for Kevin Hart.

On Tuesday, December 4th, Kevin Hart announcedthat he would be hosting the91st Oscars ceremony. By Thursday, December6th, just two days later, Hart revealedhe was dropping out of hosting duties.

How did we get here?

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Hours after the initialannouncement, a bunch of old, homophobictweets started resurfacing on Twitter. GuardianeditorBenjamin Lee started posting homophobic comments and screenshots of the tweets on his account (the tweets were from 2009 to 2011:)

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Kevin Hart started to delete the tweets. However, he didn't get rid ofall of them

On Thursday Hart respondedto the tweets. He was defiant; he didn't apologize. In the video, Hart said:

Guys, Im almost 40 years old. If you dont believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I dont know what to tell you. If you want to hold people in a position where they always have to justify or explain the past, then do you. Im the wrong guy, man. Im in a great place. A great mature place where all I do is spread positivity.

That responsewas received poorly on social media.

A couple of hours later Hart posted another video where he revealed that The Academy asked him to apologizefor the old tweets or they would have to find another host. Hart passed, saying that he's addressed his homophobicwords before, and didn't feel the need to do it again. (In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone he spoke about the joke about not wanting to have a gay son. Hart said he "wouldnt tell that joke today, because when I said it, the times werent as sensitive as they are now.)

Hours later, Hart dropped out of the Oscars. He also finally issued an apology: