Important Reminder of how Stassi reacted and treated Tamron Hall
Stassi's first interview after she was fired from Vanderpump Rules was about ~3 months later with Tamron Hall on the Tamron Hall show.
The interview is in three parts:
- Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InNxnCycZ6c
- Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnn-hxcq5oo
- Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvREJI1pt0
After this interview happened, Stassi and her team, unprompted, reacted by releasing an exclusive statement to Us Magazine which included the following:
"Stassi felt totally unprepared for the interview,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “She wasn’t in a good mood afterward and felt like she was put on the spot. She has built her brand on being candid and funny, and she feels afraid to make any wrong comments or jokes and having them come across negatively, which, in turn, made the interview awkward.” A second source from Stassi's camp: “Producers laid the segments out for Stassi and her team, and everything was all set. And then, to everyone’s surprise, Tamron went rogue and took the interview in a completely different direction.”
Which then forced Tamron Hall to go on the defense, and defend her actions in the interview.
- Tamron talking about this on SiriusXM (during which Tamron mentions she found out that multiple outlets had been shopped the story, not just Us Magazine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHbICsGe5V8
- Tamron talking about the negative reaction on her own show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4RM93YGYRg
So to recap - Stassi was given a platform for openly explaining what work she had been putting in to demonstrate that in the future she would apply more consciousness about the biases in her actions how those have and had impact others, and what the weight of the damage was that she did to many communities with her words/actions over the years, including the black community.
Stassi's FIRST response to the FIRST time she was given a chance to do so was to attack and call the black women who gave her that platform a liar, forcing that same black women (Tamron Hall) to actively go out and defend herself.
I realize it has been ~six years, but my blood still boils thinking about not only the sheer hypocrisy, but also how brazen it was to call a famed reporter/talk show host a liar purely because she was upset by the reaction to the interview that was based on Stassi's original actions. How someone could treat another person that way who had extended such a kindness to try and give you a chance at any sort of redemption, only to shit on them is a level of ignorance I can't comprehend.