Amanda Seales Responded To Claims She Was A "Mean Girl" On Set Of "Insecure"

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Created by and starring Issa, Insecure followed Issa Dee, a pistillate astir to crook 30 who's trying to fig retired beingness successful LA. It ran from 2016 to 2021 and co-starred Amanda arsenic Issa's friend, Tiffany DuBois.

In the interview, Amanda said issues began successful 2019 aft she was allegedly denied introduction by Issa's publicist, Vanessa Anderson, to an Emmys enactment for Black performers.

Amanda claimed connected the Club Shay Shay podcast that erstwhile she talked to Issa astir the enactment a mates of days later, Issa recommended that she and Vanessa speak. Amanda claimed that, erstwhile she got spoke with Vanessa, the publicist admitted she didn't "like" the actor. Amanda besides accused Vanessa of launching a "smear campaign" against her aft she hung up and refused to talk to Vanessa immoderate further.

"There's a full communicative that is wholly mendacious that radical support spinning. They support saying, you know, that I'm this mean miss connected this set, that I harmed these radical connected set," Amanda said. "I conscionable privation to constituent retired thing precise basic. How tin I beryllium a mean miss connected a acceptable that ain't my show? How?"

"It's your show," she continued, referring to Issa. "You are my boss. I don't adjacent person the capableness to beryllium the mean miss present 'cause you tin occurrence me. There's nary mode for maine to beryllium a mean miss successful this situation."

Amanda said she'd tried to debar talking astir the acquisition publically due to the fact that it was ever "incredibly important" to her to "protect" Issa. "Because I cognize that Issa is doing thing wrong this concern that truthful fewer radical get to do. However, there's conscionable been capable instances astatine this point, wherever I should person been protected by Issa, and I wasn't."

"She wasn't empowering to me. She didn't consciousness similar I was needed," Amanda added. "She didn't consciousness similar I deserved to beryllium protected. I'm lone giving a information of the situation. But that was my experience. And nonetheless, I person inactive ever protected her due to the fact that I felt similar it was my work to bash so. But it is not."

BuzzFeed has reached retired to reps for Issa and Vanessa for remark connected Amanda's claims. In the meantime, ticker the afloat occurrence here:

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