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Azealia Banks recently sat down with Access Hollywood to talk about her altercation with Russell Crowe at a Beverly Hills hotel on October 15.

Almost immediately, the rapper started to break down during the interview and was asked why by host Alex Hudgens.

"Because every time, every time something like this happens I'm always being blamed for wanting this kind of attention," the 25-year old Harlem, New York native explained. "Who the fuck wants to tell somebody they got spat on? You know, that's humiliating. And I'm just really, really humiliated."

As we previously reported, Banks was invited to Crowe's party by RZA, who she was negotiating a record deal with.

At some point during the night there was a heated argument between Banks and another female guest.

Everyone seems to agree that at that point Crowe physically removed Banks from his suite and had security escort her from the hotel. The exact sequence of events and why it happened depends on who you talk to.

Banks claims Crowe choked, spit on and called her a racial slur.

According to RZA, the "212" rapper assaulted a woman at the get-together, which led to her being kicked out.

"Azealia threatened to cut a girl in the face with a glass, then actually grabs a glass and physically attacks for no logical reason," he wrote on Facebook October 20.

The Wu Tang Clan co-founder admits to seeing Crowe spit at Banks, but insists it didn't land on her because he was standing in between the two. He added that he didn't hear Crowe use a racial slur or see him assault Banks.

Crowe also denies the allegations being made against him.

Banks told Hudgens she has a hard time believing hotel surveillance cameras didn't catch what transpired in the hallway.

"And then there's like no tape," she said. "You call the hotel, where's the fucking tape? Like, where's the tape? And they're just like, 'Oh, there's no cameras in that hallway.' How can there not be no cameras in that hallway? Like, the hallway where the suites are. As many fucking celebrities that come through here. As this much money moves through this hallway, there's no cameras here? You're full of shit."

Banks filed a police report the following day, but without footage and witnesses to back up her story it's unlikely Crowe will be charged with a crime.

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