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    Tana Mongeau bans co-host Brooke Schofield from filming podcast episode and calls resurfaced racist tweets ‘horrific’

    By Maanya Sachdeva,

    2 hours ago

    TANA Mongeau has condemned her co-host Brooke Schofield’s resurfaced racist tweets in a new episode of their podcast Cancelled.

    Tana addressed the controversy in the latest episode of Cancelled, describing Brooke’s tweets as “f**ked up” and “horrific,” adding that Brooke has “more growing” to do.

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    Cancelled co-hosts Brooke Schofield and Tana Mongeau arrive at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards on February 18, 2024
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    Cancelled co-host Tana Mongeau condemned Brooke Schofield’s racist tweets during the latest episode of their Cancelled podcast

    “I have no right to forgive her as a white person for the things she said,” Tana said, expressing regret for initially standing by Brooke.

    Brooke was noticeably absent from the episode, with Tana explaining that was “my decision.”

    “We all saw the tweets, and they’re f**ked up and horrific and I’m saying that as a white person,” she continued. “And I’ve made it very clear to Brooke as well, that I condemn her for these tweets.

    “And they’re f**king horrible, and I have no right to forgive her as a white person for the things that she said,” Tana added, in a separately recorded introduction to the episode.

    Tana also expressed her desire to be “open and honest” with listeners, explaining she was “also wrong in this situation.”

    “When Brooke made her first apology video, I commented on it and I said, ‘We grew up bad, I love you’, and immediately regretted it so hard,” Tana explained.

    “Realized how f**king stupid it was for me to f**king say that. I’m going to beat myself up for that forever, quite frankly.”

    Brooke released a nearly four-minute-long apology video on TikTok after her racist tweets resurfaced online earlier this month.

    The pop culture account Pop Crave first highlighted the tweets that were published between 2012 and 2015.

    In one of the messages, Brooke defended George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin.

    She also tweeted about having “ratchet hair” and using racist profanities in a movie theater.

    The TikToker broke down in tears during her apology video, acknowledging that the tweets were “wrong,” “horrible,” and “disgusting.”

    She explained that she was adopted by her grandparents when she was 10, adding that their views influenced her.

    “There are people in my life, who I’ve looked up to forever, who I do not agree with,” she told her fans and followers.

    I have no right to forgive her as a white person for the things she said.

    Tana Mongeau

    Brooke admitted she tweeted some of those remarks when she was 18 but didn’t “shift her way of thinking” until she graduated from college.

    She also apologized for not speaking out sooner.

    ‘NOT THE RIGHT MINDSET’

    “I was getting these messages from people who were hurt by [the tweets] and I felt like by bringing more attention to it, I’d be hurting more people.

    “That was not the right mindset,” Brooke confessed.

    In one of her tweets, Brooke argued that Martin’s death at the hands of Zimmerman, who was then a member of the Florida community’s neighborhood watch, “wasn’t a crime of racism.”

    Zimmerman, then 28, fatally shot the unarmed African-American schoolboy on February 26, 2012, while he was patrolling the Retreat at the Twin Lakes gated community in Sanford, Flordia.

    Zimmerman argued he had acted in self-defence and that he was within his rights to fire under The “stand your ground” law.

    He was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in 2013.

    The verdict triggered widespread outrage and grief, leading directly to the formation of the Black Lives Movement that marked its 10-year anniversary last year.

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    Brooke Schofield and Tana Mongeau attend the Spotify Celebrates 2023 Wrapped at Grandmaster Recorders on November 30, 2023, in Los Angeles, California
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    Tana Mongeau is seen on June 8, 2024, in Los Angeles, California
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    Brooke Schofield at the Twisters premiere held at Westwood Regency Village Theatre on July 11, 2024, shortly before the racist tweets controversy erupted
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