Little did anyone know that when Montel Williams showed up in Savannah, Georgia on Friday to promote the drug industry’s program to help people afford prescription drugs, the talk show host would end up threatening to “blow up” some local reporters, according to the Savannah Morning News.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the threat was apparently triggered by the following question, posed by a high school intern working as a reporter: “Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?”

“Williams, who has multiple sclerosis and is a paid spokesman for the industry’s Partnership for Prescription Assistance, abruptly ended the interview shortly after that question was asked,” according to the paper. ”Later in the day, the reporter went to a local hotel to do a feature on gingerbread houses displayed there. Williams, who was at the hotel for a separate event, believed they had followed him there. According to the reporter and two of her colleagues, Williams approached them and said, ‘Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up.’”

Poor Montel. The MS is really getting to him.