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Amanda Seales says white producer on ‘The Real’ felt attacked by her
Comedian and former co-host of ‘The Real’ Amanda Seales
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August 1, 2020

Amanda Seales says white producer on ‘The Real’ felt attacked by her

American comedian Amanda Seales

has spilled the details on the real reason she left the popular talk show

The outspoken black activist said

she was reported by the show’s only white female producer, after she expressed

concerns over the woman overseeing a segment which featured her Smart, Funny & Black game show.

“I did a Smart, Funny & Black game on The Real…and they assigned it to theone white woman producer,” Seales said during a recent Instagram live. “We have threeblack women producers and one black guy producer so I was like, ‘Why are youproducing this?’ and she said , ‘Oh, because so-and-so assigned it to me.’ Isaid, ‘But why would you be producing this? You’re a white woman, you don’tunderstand what we’re gonna be talking about.’ Now, she could have said, ‘Wellactually, I grew up in this culture…’ if that was the case…

“Another producer there

stepped in and said, ‘Listen we’re gonna work on it,’ and she proved my point

because I’m new to this show, I need to work with somebody who knows this show

because I know my show… so I couldn’t stay in a place like that.”

Seales added that the white woman

did not know the details of the segment, so she enquired about getting

production credit.

“Basically she went crying

to someone and said I attacked her,” Seales said.

On top of this, she said the show

was breaking her spirit as authority tried to censor her, and “I didn’t

want to be somewhere where people weren’t being honest with me. People were

scared of me cause of my black womanness.”

The last straw was harsh

criticism by online trolls on The Real‘ssocial media pages. Seales said while former co-host Loni Love would urge themto leave her alone, the show’s executives did not intervene to stop the onlinebullying.

Seales departure from The Real in June came a month beforeTamera Mowry announced her split from the show.

Seales announced her departure from ‘The Real’ in June.

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