Amanda Seales On Issa Rae Drama And Mean Girl Claims

Created via and starring Issa, Insecure adopted Issa Dee, a girl about to show 30 who’s attempting to determine year in LA. It ran from 2016 to 2021 and co-starred Amanda as Issa’s pal, Tiffany DuBois.

Within the interview, Amanda stated problems started in 2019 then she was once allegedly denied access via Issa’s publicist, Vanessa Anderson, to an Emmys birthday party for Twilight performers.

Amanda claimed at the Membership Shay Shay podcast that once she talked to Issa concerning the birthday party a few days upcoming, Issa really useful that she and Vanessa talk. Amanda claimed that, when she were given spoke with Vanessa, the publicist admitted she didn’t “like” the actor. Amanda additionally accused Vanessa of launching a “smear campaign” in opposition to her then she hung up and refused to talk to Vanessa any more.

“There’s a whole narrative that is completely false that people keep spinning. They keep saying, you know, that I’m this mean girl on this set, that I harmed these people on set,” Amanda stated. “I just want to point out something very basic. How can I be a mean girl on a set that ain’t my show? How?”

“It’s your show,” she endured, regarding Issa. “You are my boss. I don’t even have the capacity to be the mean girl here ’cause you can fire me. There’s no way for me to be a mean girl in this situation.”

Amanda stated she’d attempted to steer clear of speaking concerning the revel in publicly as it was once at all times “incredibly important” to her to “protect” Issa. “Because I know that Issa is doing something within this business that so few people get to do. However, there’s just been enough instances at this point, where I should have been protected by Issa, and I wasn’t.”

“She wasn’t empowering to me. She didn’t feel like I was needed,” Amanda added. “She didn’t feel like I deserved to be protected. I’m only giving a portion of the situation. But that was my experience. And nonetheless, I have still always protected her because I felt like it was my responsibility to do so. But it is not.”