{"id":286287,"date":"2020-01-10T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1110664"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:30:49","slug":"real-housewives-brandi-redmond-checks-into-wellness-center-over-racism-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/real-housewives-brandi-redmond-checks-into-wellness-center-over-racism-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives&#8217; Brandi Redmond Checks Into Wellness Center Over Racism Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.705767350929\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020010\/rs_634x1024-200110152921-634x1024-Brandi_Redmond-gj-1-10-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Brandi Redmond\" alt=\"Brandi Redmond\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Charles Sykes\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.826625386997\">\n<p><strong>Brandi Redmond<\/strong> is taking some time to &#8220;reflect and better herself&#8221; after igniting controversy with a racist video.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Redmond&#8217;s rep confirmed the 41-year-old checked into a wellness center to &#8220;reflect and better herself.&#8221; In addition, her rep&nbsp;revealed on Instagram, &#8220;She will be back with us next week.&nbsp;We support her on this journey of healing and ask that you join us in that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her decision to check into this center stems from a newly resurfaced 2017 video&nbsp;in which she impersonates an &#8220;Asian&#8221; woman. In the clip, she says, &#8220;They ask me what Asian I am because my eyes, they squinty,&#8221; while her daughters pose and giggle behind her.<\/p>\n<p>The short clip&nbsp;has since been deleted and Brandi issued an apology on Jan. 4. &#8220;A video resurfaced of me from three years ago which at the time I had posted and quickly deleted and then immediately apologized for my insensitivity. I would like to once again sincerely apologize for my offensive actions,&#8221; she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandiRedmond\/status\/1213513336316407818?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.810650887574\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.4319526627219\">\n<p>While Brandi insists on Twitter that she doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandiRedmond\/status\/1213551954217127936?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">malicious bon<\/a>e&#8221; in her body, some&nbsp;critics&nbsp;believe her&nbsp;apology was insincere. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbdedonatis\/status\/1213522895806386183?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screenshots<\/a>, which E! News was unable to independently verify, the star reportedly told social media users that it was a &#8220;good impersonation&#8221; and she would &#8220;do it again for a damn good audition.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.955764075067\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.439678284182\">\n<p>She added, &#8220;There was no harm done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, many on social media are calling Brandi a hypocrite since she&#8217;s accused <strong>LeeAnne Locken&nbsp;<\/strong>of racist behavior. As some will recall, LeeAnne&#8217;s use of the phrase &#8220;chirpy Mexican&#8221; was a major topic of discussion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1109616\/andy-cohen-grilled-leeanne-locken-over-her-racist-comments-on-rhod-reunion-it-was-rough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">season four reunion<\/a> and Brandi was one of the many stars admonishing LeeAnne. According to Brandi, LeeAnne calling people &#8220;Mexican&#8221; was &#8220;disgusting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s disgusting. Watching, I&#8217;m disappointed,&#8221; Redmond told Locken. &#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;<\/p>\n<p>LeeAnn has since apologized numerous times, but it&#8217;s unclear if the rest of the cast forgives her for her language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1110664\/real-housewives-brandi-redmond-checks-into-wellness-center-over-racism-allegations?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>Charles Sykes\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Brandi Redmond is taking some time to &#8220;reflect and better herself&#8221; after igniting controversy with a racist video. In a statement, Redmond&#8217;s rep confirmed the 41-year-old checked into a wellness center to &#8220;reflect and better herself.&#8221; In addition, her rep&nbsp;revealed on Instagram, &#8220;She will be back with us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-05 07:05:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}