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Reality TV star Jennie Nguyen, who is Vietnamese American, has been fired by Bravo. She will no longer appear on “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”
Nguyen is being called “racist” over social media posts from 2020 that were pro-police and anti-BLM.
She was strongly opposed to the violence and destruction caused by widespread Black Lives Matter riots.
In September 2020, she wrote, “I’m sick of people saying cops need more training. You had 18 years to teach your kids it’s wrong to loot, steal, set buildings a blaze, block traffic, laser people’s eyes, overturn cars, destroy buildings and attack citizens. Who failed who?”
In another post, she wrote, “Hundreds of blacks shot and many killed (including children) by other blacks every week.”
“Over a thousand Officers violently injured, some permanently, by rioters,” she continued.
“Anarchists rioting in major cities every night, which has caused billions of dollars of destruction to private and public property. And you still think Police Officers are the problem. You are an idiot,” she said.
The TV network released a statement that reads: “Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she will no longer be a cast member on ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.’”
The statement continues: “We recognize we failed to take appropriate action once her offensive social media posts were brought to our attention. Moving forward, we will work to improve our processes to ensure we make better informed and more thoughtful casting decisions.”
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Nearly all of Nguyen’s co-stars such as Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Meredith Marks and Jen Shah, have also publicly condemned her past posts and unfollowed her.
Although she has not commented publicly on her firing, she previously shared a public apology on Instagram in which she noted that she has since deleted many of the offending posts.
“I want to acknowledge and apologize for my deleted Facebook posts from 2020 that resurfaced today. At the time, I thought I was speaking out against violence, but I have since learned how offensive and hurtful my words were,” she wrote. “It’s why I deactivated that account more than a year ago and why I continue to try to learn about perspectives different from my own. I regret those posts and am sincerely sorry for the pain they caused.”
