{"id":286165,"date":"2020-01-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1109616"},"modified":"2020-01-08T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:00:00","slug":"andy-cohen-grilled-leeanne-locken-over-her-racist-comments-on-rhod-reunion-it-was-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/andy-cohen-grilled-leeanne-locken-over-her-racist-comments-on-rhod-reunion-it-was-rough\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen Grilled LeeAnne Locken Over Her &#8220;Racist&#8221; Comments on RHOD Reunion &amp; It Was Rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191118\/rs_600x600-191218071208-600-rhod-reunion-ch-121819.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.149859943978\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.859943977591\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/andy_cohen\">Andy Cohen<\/a><\/strong> wasted no time holding<strong> LeeAnne Locken<\/strong> accountable for her controversial comments during tonight&#8217;s <em>Real Housewives of Dallas<\/em> reunion part two.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>As fans of the Bravo show are well aware of, a major storyline this season was LeeAnne constantly calling co-star <strong>Kary Brittingham<\/strong> as &#8220;Mexican&#8221; during nasty verbal tirades. At one point, she even called the <em>RHOD<\/em> newbie a &#8220;chirpy Mexican&#8221; to <strong>Kameron Westcott<\/strong>.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Needless to say, everyone-even Andy-had strong thoughts on LeeAnne&#8217;s choice of words and whether or not they were racist.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s disgusting. Watching, I&#8217;m disappointed,&#8221; <strong>Brandi Redmond<\/strong> said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be associated. I feel like ashamed and it&#8217;s not OK LeeAnn, it&#8217;s not OK. To use that over and over and over again is racism.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;I never understood calling someone by their nationality as being something that you could use that label on. I really didn&#8217;t,&#8221; LeeAnne defended herself. &#8220;Because in Texas, I mean, we use that word all the time, like for everything.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;Chirpy Mexican?&#8221; Andy asked as all the other ladies denied LeeAnne&#8217;s claim.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24\">\n<p>&#8220;OK, I apologize. The very first time in that hallway, I was in a place where I could not articulate well. I didn&#8217;t use my words well and I didn&#8217;t like it when I watched it. I can tell you that,&#8221; LeeAnne said, adding that she was &#8220;mentally not present&#8221; during the explosion.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;There were 10 other occasions,&#8221; Andy said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;And then the time that I said &#8216;chirpy&#8217; was really bad too,&#8221; LeeAnne admitted. &#8220;I agree that was a mistake. I agree that was an error.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;It was a series of errors,&#8221; Andy added. &#8220;I said things that I should never have said,&#8221; LeeAnne replied.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When Andy asked for Kary&#8217;s thoughts, she broke down in tears. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even look at her,&#8221; Kary cried. &#8220;You know, she&#8217;s never once apologized to me.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;You are a racist, LeeAnn,&#8221; Kary added. &#8220;You&#8217;re referring to me like that, you obviously hated me, maybe because I was from Mexico.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When LeeAnne argued that production crew told her not to reach out to Kary after filming, Cohen firmly stated, &#8220;Not true! LeeAnn, that&#8217;s not true.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;The other thing that&#8217;s interesting is we&#8217;ve been doing interview for the show for the last few months after you knew that was going to be on there,&#8221; Andy said. &#8220;You kind of doubled-down on your attacks on her in the interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>LeeAnne said her interviews were done &#8220;earlier&#8221; before she saw the footage and Andy hit her with another, &#8220;Not true. Not true. The producers were shocked.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;Stephanie, do you think being called out as a Mexican is racist?&#8221; Andy asked.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"html-external-5\" data-type=\"async\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"40\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-html-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20\">\n<p>&#8220;I do. Honestly, I feel like the things you said were racist,&#8221; Stephanie Hollman said. &#8220;I would like to think you&#8217;re a better person than that and it was ignorance, but yes, LeeAnne, they were racist. I truly believe that the things you said were very racist.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;You said you sat in <strong>Julio Iglesias<\/strong>&#8216; lap, do you realize he&#8217;s Spanish and not Mexican?&#8221; Andy grilled LeeAnne, who responded, &#8220;No! Hello? No!&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I&#8221; really f&#8211;ked up and I really and went in a hole and I really very upset and disappointed with myself,&#8221; she added.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;I believe you did it with bad intentions,&#8221; <strong>D&#8217;Andra Simmons<\/strong> chimed in. &#8220;I do not believe your that ignorant because I know you better than that.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>At the end of the reunion, Andy asked all the ladies to send and apology and LeeAnne&#8217;s answer was no surprise. &#8220;One hundred percent with Kary and to all of our audience,&#8221; LeeAnne cried, wiping back tears. &#8220;I am very sorry. I promise you it will never happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1109616\/andy-cohen-grilled-leeanne-locken-over-her-racist-comments-on-rhod-reunion-it-was-rough?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Cohen wasted no time holding LeeAnne Locken accountable for her controversial comments during tonight&#8217;s Real Housewives of Dallas reunion part two.&nbsp;As fans of the Bravo show are well aware of, a major storyline this season was LeeAnne constantly calling co-star Kary Brittingham as &#8220;Mexican&#8221; during nasty verbal tirades. 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