STEVE HARVEY DISCUSSES KATT WILLAMS DRAMA: Veteran entertainer says he left 5 minutes into Katt's infamous New Year's Eve set.

     *Steve Harvey is still trying to figure out how he ended up in a "battle" with fellow comic Katt Williams.

      Both shared a New Year's Eve bill in Detroit that was preceded by a week full of insults that Williams directed toward Harvey. The vitriol continued on stage as Williams, who followed Harvey in the New Year's Eve lineup, insulted everything from Harvey's physical appearance to his talent as a comic.

      "He went up there for 40 minutes and not only talked about me, but Jamie Foxx and a couple of other people," Harvey told EUR's Lee Bailey. "It was just a really, really disrespectful show. If you say you're funnier than me, prove it. …But don't disrespect me man, and go up there in real negative overtones and slam me on stage.

       "I just left after about 5 minutes of sitting in my dressing room. And of course I got the reports of what all got said, but he's never said anything to me. And now he's doing more interviews saying that all of this was my idea. Well that's amazing."      

Katt Williams

       "I just wish the brother well," Harvey continued. "But stop being a coward and talk to me. See I'm available. I'm available and willing to talk. So stop being a coward going to all these interviews and Web sites saying stuff about me. I'm a grown-a** man."

      Listen to the entire interview with Steve Harvey below: 

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