Shaunie O’Neal Unsettled About the Monster She Created:: BB Wives

Shaunie O’Neal spoke with EbonyJet about her addictive and highly successful show, Basketball Wives.  Surprisingly, she revealed some frustration and acknowledged that her show casts a negative image of Black women on television.  She admitted that she knows she’s a hypocrite when she advocates for women:

“People say to me: ‘You’re saying the portrayal of Black women is bad on TV, but your show is one of the number one reasons why it is.’ Guess what? I agree! But you look at those credits — it’s more than me executive producing it…”

Shaunie also talked about the Los Angeles spinoff of the Miami Basketball Wives and how the creation of the show might have been a mistake:

“The L.A. cast — there are some wives and fiancés, which I’m fine with. But there’s a little bit of trash kind of sprinkled into that cast that I’m totally against. I was really very hands off with that cast. It’s just drama and … that’s not my vision. I don’t think that all money is good money. I don’t need it that bad. So we are having some issues. I’ve kind of just had to take a backseat and shut up and just let it go, let it ride. It’s David and Goliath right now.”

I guess we’ll tune in and see.

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