Rehab Addict host Nicole Curtis is talking out in a prolonged assertion after HGTV canceled her present over an N-word controversy.
RadarOnline printed footage on Wednesday, February 11, of Curtis, 49, utilizing a racial slur, prompting HGTV to right away pull new episodes of Rehab Addict that have been as a consequence of premiere the identical day. In keeping with the outlet, Curtis used the offensive phrase on the set of the house restoration present.
In a Thursday, February 12, Instagram put up, Curtis apologized for her use of the N-word within the clip however insisted that the footage was non-public and never associated to the HGTV present. She claimed the video was stolen and “manipulated” and vowed to launch the uncooked footage on Friday, February 13. (Us Weekly has reached out to HGTV for touch upon Curtis’ claims.)
“This isn’t a put up I ever thought I’d be writing and I’ve drafted this extra instances that I can depend and nothing appears to be sufficient,” Curtis started.
She continued, “There may be anger, there’s hate, there’s ache. I’m right here to take it. I haven’t been hiding, ignoring, ready for this to cross. I’ve simply been enjoying this all time and again and watching the video and having this all out collectively to say the fitting factor, do the fitting factor after doing the wrongest of wrongs.”
“I’m sorry. I’m stuffed with regret and remorse, simply as a lot as I used to be one second after that phrase was stated 4 years in the past in 2022,” Curtis wrote. “I present this, I say this and I notice you’re getting a restricted view, as what has been circulating is a clip of MY footage that was stolen then manipulated, edited and bought to (a) tabloid to coincide with my return to tv solely to create this chaos of hate, anger, disappointment.”
Curtis stated that she makes “no excuse” for the language seen on the video, writing, “I’m not (a) sufferer. Nothing I say or do will take that second 4 years in the past away. I do know it was incorrect. It will by no means occur once more.”
“I wish to be clear that about this ….I’m not addressing this as a result of I used to be ‘caught’. Im right here as a result of I’m not okay with the truth that I stated that,” she continued. “I’m and have been submerged within the African American group my whole grownup life. I’m a mother of two kids, I selected to stay and work within the inside cities of many main cities, however most famously Minneapolis and Detroit. Sure, I hear that phrase on (a) each day foundation, individuals say it throughout me, I take heed to it in music, I’m not secluded on the suburbs. I’m the white, small blonde within the neighborhood who is aware of that’s a phrase that represents evil, ache, torture, trauma when utilized by somebody like me. And but, it got here from me…..”
Curtis went on to clarify her inflammatory language within the footage, by which she might be heard saying “fart (N-word)” whereas showing to battle with a part of a renovation.
“You ask — how did that simply simply come out. I don’t have a solution for that. It did and it shocked me as proven. Now, you ask -what (have been) you even saying? I throw collectively phrases, that is documented on 15 years of television, interviews, posts of those random phrases,” she wrote. “Essentially the most well-known ‘son of (a) beehive digger’ which took the place of SOB once I grew to become a mommy and (might) not swear on TV. (In) latest years, I’ve added fart digger, fart knocker. It’s documented.”
Curtis continued her assertion within the feedback part of her put up, writing concerning the impression that the controversy has had on her kids.
“I’ve disillusioned so many and that features my kids, who I needed to inform. My youngest stated ‘you don’t say that phrase’ and I needed to say (I) did,” she wrote.
Curtis stated she would launch “uncooked footage” of the second on Friday, writing that she made a “mistake that I spotted immediately and went into panic.”
“Not terrified this is able to smash my profession, no, terrified I put that horrible phrase into the universe,” she stated. “That was all my footage, my cameras, my home — it was not for HGTV, not for a present, nobody would have ever seen the footage — I simply didn’t need it there as a result of it was a second of deep remorse and disgrace. There was no concern of community, and so forth. I didn’t wish to ever hear me say that once more — it’s that straightforward.”
“HGTV was not conscious as a result of it was shot alone private time, completed and gear. Nobody was conscious besides the individuals in that room,” Curtis claimed. “Nobody had that footage drives besides myself and my ex bf.”
Curtis concluded her put up by apologizing once more for the usage of the racial slur and famous that she was releasing the assertion “with no PR agency” and “in opposition to most individuals’s recommendation.”
“I’m sorry and I perceive the damage, the anger,” she added.