Issa Rae Suggests She Won’t Work With Amanda Seales Again After ‘Insecure’ Star’s ‘Club Shay Shay’ Appearance
Seales previously spoke on tensions between them on the set of HBO's "Insecure."
Issa Rae seemingly confirmed that she no longer wants to work with Amanda Seales.
The Insecure star, 39, made the confession during a conversation on Tuesday at an event she held for her Viarae prosecco brand in Brooklyn, New York. As heard in audio shared by the Breakfast Club radio show, Rae was asked to name a person she would never work with again.
“I mean, anybody who’s going on a podcast to talk shit about me,” Rae is heard saying at the 2:03 mark in the video shared below.
“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.
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."
