Issa Rae meant no disrespect when Emmys showed her checking her phone during the Betty White tribute

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"Look, my phone broke! Right?" the Insecure star told Jimmy Kimmel. "It did. And I was hanging on to Betty White's every word. First of all, I love Betty White, and I was hanging on to her every word. The cameraman was shady. My phone broke. My family was probably texting me because I had just lost. And so I was trying to silence it. I actually don't know what I was doing, to be honest, but I was paying attention."