Stassi Schroeder Reflects On Her Past Karen Behavior On "Tamron Hall"
Stassi Schroeder Admits She’s Been An “All Lives Matter” Karen And Tells Tamron Hall She Needed To Be Cancelled - Page 2
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Tamron Hall is going super hard out the gate for her second season. After securing a controversial interview with Andrew Gillum and his wife R. Jai, her latest guest is former “Vanderpump Rules” star Stassi Schroeder who was fired from the show earlier this year after it was revealed she’d made racist comments about her co-star Faith Stowers and even falsely accused her of a crime. In her first interview following Bravo’s decision to let her go, Stassi Schroeder joined the Thursday, September 17th edition of “Tamron Hall” for an exclusive interview addressing the repercussions of her racially insensitive actions.
In June 2020, one week after former ‘Vanderpump Rules’ cast member Faith Stowers revealed that Schroeder and her fellow cast member Kristen Doute had falsely reported her to the police for a crime she had nothing to do with, Bravo released a statement that Schroeder and Doute would not be returning to the series. As a result of the firing, Schroeder, who has since announced she is expecting her first child, lost several endorsements and her popular podcast was removed from all platforms.
After being silent since the news broke more than three months ago, Tamron asked Schroder why she decided to finally speak out to which she responded,
“Honestly, now because I needed time to process my feelings. I needed time to process what happened. I feel like one of the most frustrating parts when this all went down was that people expected me to just understand everything immediately and things like that take time. And I felt like it would be better for me to get a greater understanding of everything and the issues before I opened my mouth again.”
When asked why Schroeder chooses not to view herself as a victim of cancel culture, she said:
“I’m someone who messed up quite a few times. I am the reason why I’m in this situation. I think a lot of people wanted me to focus on cancel culture and whether I was a victim or not, and it’s just not how I feel at all.”
Schroeder also reacted to people on social media labelling her as a racist, saying:
“That has been the hardest part of all of this. That is absolutely the hardest part. Just going out to a restaurant or going to the grocery store and wondering if that’s what people think. Throughout this whole thing, I’ve recognized I’ve never felt that I was a racist, I don’t have hate in my heart but I’ve recognized that I wasn’t anti-racist. I wasn’t. And that’s something I’ve been learning throughout all of this.”
When asked if she truly understood how the potential ramifications of her actions could have negatively impacted Stowers’ life, Schroeder said:
“I do absolutely understand. I’ve spent the last three months working with a teacher and learning about everything. And there was so much that I didn’t know. I didn’t understand that just because something wasn’t about race for me, doesn’t mean it’s not about race for the other person because I’m bringing my experience as a white privileged woman to this situation and she’s bringing her experience as a Black woman into this situation. And because it’s about race for her, it is about race. And that’s something that I’ve realized.”
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Tamron also asked Schroeder about racially insensitive comments she made on her “Straight Up with Stassi,” podcast when addressing the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, to which Schroeder responded:
“I’ve been wanting to talk about this podcast more because going through these past few months and working with a teacher and learning about Black history and just the obstacles that Black people face every single day, I look back on the podcast and I am so embarrassed that I even had those thoughts much less put it out there. I was a Karen who basically said ‘What about All Lives Matter?’ Schroeder continued “I have been wanting to talk about this podcast because I now know how to speak for Black Lives Matter…to be able to defend it when people are questioning it.”
Schroeder also addressed her infamous “Nazi Chic” photo caption that was shared on her personal social media account in 2018, and has since been deleted, saying:
“I am so embarrassed. I’ve been embarrassed about that for three years. It was a poor joke amongst me and my friends and it was so wrong. And again I have spent my life as a privileged person and it is my fault, I have to say this, that I have not educated myself before. It is absolutely my fault that I didn’t know better, but the issue is I did not know better.”
Later in the interview, Schroeder explained how she plans to move forward and how her perspective has changed, saying “I just want to be a better person. I’m pregnant and I want my daughter to be proud of me. And I want to be a part of the solution, I’ve been a part of the problem for years now. And I’ve recognized that. That’s why I say I don’t feel like I’m a victim of cancel culture. People want me to be mad at it and I’m not, I needed it.”
On how she plans to explain these actions to her future daughter, Schroeder said:
“And that’s something that I ask my coach about all of the time, how best to talk to a child about this. Because like I mentioned earlier, when I was learning about everything, I think the weeks that we focused on Black history a light went off in my head. Just learning about everything for a couple weeks straight, all at once, I had never thought about the oppression that Black people face in that way. There was just so much that I didn’t understand, and again, it’s my fault that I didn’t educate myself.”
What do you think about Tamron’s interview? We love that she asked Stassi if her change of heart was financially motivated. Do you think Stassi should be granted any grace for her apologies and regret or is she forever cancelled?
