After Amanda Seales’ Club Shay Shay interview went viral, the actress voiced her disapproval of how it was conducted.
According to Vibe, Seales went on an Instagram rant and claimed host Shannon Sharpe interrogated her and had “zero love” for her.
Seales received backlash for revealing she was diagnosed as being on the Autism Spectrum, even though a physician has never diagnosed her.
“Shannon: But have you been clinically diagnosed? Me: Yes. There is a clinical diagnosis for Autism. He then hung his head and exhaled in frustration because I did not answer his question.”
“That is called deflection. Why? Because I was not going to be pressured by this man who was interrogating me with absolutely zero love for me into proving something to him that L. By his line of questioning, he had already committed to undermining.
“I understand my response may be confusing to some but I am clarifying it. As I did in my Live. And that is enough.”
What Portion Of Amanda Seales’ Club Shay Shay Interview Did The “Interrogation” Take Place?
The controversial part of the interview occurred when Sharpe asked Amanda Seales about her well-being.
Her response was that she’s “evolving” and has received “a lot of information and a lot of slander at the same time.”
When Sharpe pressed for more details, Amanda Seales replied:
“In the past month… it’s just been a very, like, difficult time, but there’s been really beautiful things that have come out of it. I was recently diagnosed as someone who has autism spectrum disorder, which is very difficult to identify in Black women because of racism.”
“What it typically means is that your brain functions in a different way, so you’re neurodivergent. And you also have certain tendencies that are considered outside of what the neurotypical way of things is. And a lot of times that can have you present in a manner that people misrepresent, which is the story of my f**king life.”
Seales also shared a video calling out Black media for “discrediting” her.
“Yet another Black space — because there is such a dedicated effort to degrade me and defame me, it is beyond my scope of comprehension — wants to suggest that because my autism diagnosis didn’t come from a clinician that it is not valid. What’s not valid is people speaking on things that they don’t know about.”
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