Amanda Seales On Issa Rae Drama And Mean Girl Claims

Created by and starring Issa, Insecure adopted Issa Dee, a girl about to show 30 who’s making an attempt to determine life in LA. It ran from 2016 to 2021 and co-starred Amanda as Issa’s good friend, Tiffany DuBois.

Within the interview, Amanda stated points started in 2019 after she was allegedly denied entry by Issa’s publicist, Vanessa Anderson, to an Emmys get together for Black performers.

Amanda claimed on the Membership Shay Shay podcast that when she talked to Issa in regards to the get together a few days later, Issa really useful that she and Vanessa converse. Amanda claimed that, when she obtained spoke with Vanessa, the publicist admitted she did not “like” the actor. Amanda additionally accused Vanessa of launching a “smear marketing campaign” towards her after she hung up and refused to talk to Vanessa any additional.

“There’s a complete narrative that’s fully false that individuals preserve spinning. They preserve saying, you already know, that I am this imply woman on this set, that I harmed these folks on set,” Amanda stated. “I simply need to level out one thing very primary. How can I be a imply woman on a set that ain’t my present? How?”

“It is your present,” she continued, referring to Issa. “You might be my boss. I do not even have the capability to be the imply woman right here ‘trigger you’ll be able to fireplace me. There is not any means for me to be a imply woman on this scenario.”

Amanda stated she’d tried to keep away from speaking in regards to the expertise publicly as a result of it was all the time “extremely necessary” to her to “defend” Issa. “As a result of I do know that Issa is doing one thing inside this enterprise that so few folks get to do. Nonetheless, there’s simply been sufficient cases at this level, the place I ought to have been protected by Issa, and I wasn’t.”

“She wasn’t empowering to me. She did not really feel like I used to be wanted,” Amanda added. “She did not really feel like I deserved to be protected. I am solely giving a portion of the scenario. However that was my expertise. And nonetheless, I’ve nonetheless all the time protected her as a result of I felt prefer it was my duty to take action. However it’s not.”