As has become customary on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast, Shannon Sharpe provided comedienne Amanda Seales the platform to unload on someone she used to be affiliated with.
Seales put “Insecure” creator and producer Issa Rae on blast for allegedly “not protecting” her during her tenure on the hit HBO show “Inescure.”
“So I’ve never talked about this publicly because it has always been incredibly important to me to protect Issa. Because I know that Issa is doing something within this business that so few people get to do. And it’s not something I desire to do,” Seales told Sharpe. “I’m not interested in getting a $100 million production deal. That’s not a life that I want for myself. But I know that her role is very important.”
Amanda Seales denies she was a mean girl on the ‘Insecure’ set
Seales alleges that this protection of Issa has opened the door for people to attack Seales.
“There’s a whole narrative that is completely false that people keep spinning,” she said. “They keep saying, you know, that I’m this mean girl on this set, that I harmed these people on this set.”
Seales denies she was belligerent and nasty on the set of the show.
“I just want to point out something very basic. How can I be a mean girl on a set that ain’t my set? How? It’s your show. You are my boss. I don’t even have the capacity to be the mean girl here because you can fire me,” she added. “So there’s no way for me to be a mean girl in this situation. And I know some people that may buck up against, like, the confirmation bias that they’ve created, but it simply is the truth.”
She wasn’t finished. Seales also accused Rae of not properly promoting her show, “Get Your Life,” despite the fact that it came from Rae’s HOORAE Media.
“Like, I put all my money into it, I wrote it, I starred in it, etcetera. And so I said, ‘Hey, you know, would you mind tweeting to correct this?’ And she just wouldn’t,” Seales said. “She wouldn’t promote any of the shows, you know? And I just felt like that was unfortunate. But it didn’t make me, it didn’t change my view of her character.”
