Issa Rae appears to have hinted that she no longer has any interest in collaborating with Amanda Seales.
The 39-year-old Insecure actress revealed this during a discussion on Tuesday at an event she hosted for her Viarae prosecco brand in Brooklyn, New York.
In audio aired by The Breakfast Club radio show, Rae was asked to mention someone she wouldn’t work with again.
According to COMPLEX she said:
“I mean, anybody who’s going on a podcast to talk shit about me,”
“I’ve had great experiences with everybody I’ve worked with though. So for the most part, like, I’m always grateful when people come back,” she continued.
Rae is likely referring to the time her former co-star appeared on an episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast in April to address their then-rumored feud, and how their issues were provoked by Rae’s publicist Vanessa Anderson.
On the podcast, Seales recalled a 2019 incident where she was kicked out of an Emmys party at the request of Anderson.
Days later, Seales said Rae called her to say she had no involvement in her removal from the event and offered to get the two of them to talk things out on the phone.
Despite her hesitations, Seales agreed to get on the phone with Anderson and alleged that she didn’t like her.
“I wanted two adults to, you know, have a conversation and mend the relationship—two adults who didn’t like each other, and it didn’t work out and we got back to work,” Rae said at Tuesday’s event.
Issa Rae seemingly addresses Amanda Seales’ comments on @ClubShayShay for the first time (via:@breakfastclubam) pic.twitter.com/UmUrukC7W5
— Glock Topickz (@Glock_Topickz) September 25, 2024
Elsewhere on her Club Shay Shay interview, Seales alleged the Rae failed to promote her own show Get Your Life, produced under Rae’s HOORAE Media.
She also accused Anderson of orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and criticized Rae for allegedly not intervening.
Those tensions apparently made their way onto the Insecure set, where Seales felt isolated and unprotected.
“There’s a whole narrative that is completely false that people keep spinning,” Seales said on Club Shay Shay of filming Insecure with Rae. “They keep saying, you know, that I’m this mean girl on this set, that I harmed these people on this set.”
“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.”
Twitter reacts:
If the story happened as Amanda Seales said it did, and Issa Rae’s response was “that has nothing to do with me”….id feel exactly how Amanda feels. Because the publicist works for you and is being extremely rude and unprofessional to your casted employee. Like…girl what?
— Jasmine ???? (@All_That_Jas__) September 25, 2024
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The discourse around Amanda and Issa just emphasizes how strong and powerful Issa’s branding is because Issa is so extremely wrong in the situation at every angle that we have been privy to and yet yall still find ways to root it back to Amanda’s attitude.
— . (@Oheyjah) September 26, 2024
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Issa Rae is making me look at her side ways. She seems like the type that knows exactly what she doing and then places the clueless game when you call her out, like Yandy. Ppl give her grace when they should just beat her ass. ????
— Tanz Carter (@_tanzcarter) September 25, 2024
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I definitely see why Amanda blames Issa. Because it is Issa’s publicist. However, as a grown woman I’m sure she made her own decision to put Amanda out. In hindsight, why did she feel the need or she had the right to do that.
— Ms.NISHIA (@MAMA_NISHIA) September 25, 2024
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So many things can be true at once. Can Amanda Seales personality be a lot sometimes? Yes. Can Issa Rae be a mean girl? Yes. Despite however she felt about Amanda, Amanda was still her employee on her show. Issa must’ve talked shxt about Amanda so much that her publicist felt…
— Get TOP on the phone! (@literallynaomi) September 25, 2024
