Haley Joel Osment is sharing his reaction to being referenced by Kendrick Lamar .

The actor unwittingly joined Lamars charting rap beef against Drake when he dropped Euphoria in April, and although Lamar confusingly referred to him as megachurch pastor Joel Osteen in the song, Osment like countless other fans thinks the mix-up was deliberate.

I was shooting in Ireland when all that happened, and I got like a hundred texts in the middle of the night, the former child star told The Associated Press in a red carpet interview for his latest film, Blink Twice, on Sunday. And I was like, What is going on?

I dont know for sure, and Im not going to assume that he knows my exact name, he continued. But the way Ive heard people talk about that and certain analysis that Ive read about it, I think that its an intentional scrambling of my name and that other guys name, because Kendricks too precise to just make a mistake like that, I think.

Lamar and Drake had thrown subtle jabs at each other for years before finally squaring off when Drake dropped Taylor Made Freestyle on his Instagram account in April and used artificial intelligence to generate the voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur to hurl insults at Lamar.

Lamar then responded with Euphoria, the first of four diss tracks against Drake, and rapped, Am I battlin ghost or AI / Ni**a feelin like Joel Osteen / Funny, he was in a film called A.I. / And my sixth sense tellin me to off him.

Unlike Osteen, Osment actually starred in 2001s A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg, as well as 1999s The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan, which Lamar also referenced in his follow-up to Euphoria, Not Like Us, opening the song with Osments classic line: I see dead people.

While some considered the couplet a glaring misstep, others argued Lamar intentionally said Osteen to suggest that Drake has a similarly opportunistic disposition and that his fabricated image makes a mockery of the culture he profits from.