Issa Rae Trends After Amanda Seales Details Their Fallout During ‘Insecure’ Days: ‘She Wasn’t Empowering To Me, She Didn’t Feel Like I Deserved To Be Protected’

“So I’ve never talked about this publicly because it has always been incredibly important to me to protect Issa. Because I know that Issa is doing something within this business that so few people get to do. And it’s not something I desire to do. I’m not interested in getting a $100 million production deal. That’s not a life that I want for myself. But I know that her role is very important.”

Amanda added that her decision to protect Issa created backlash for herself as a narrative was spun that she was a “mean girl” on the set of the comedy series.

“There’s a whole narrative that is completely false that people keep spinning. 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. 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.”

She ultimately said Issa did not protect her, and went as far as refusing to promote her series Get Your Life, which was under Issa’s HOORAE Media production company.

“Like, I put all my money into it, I wrote it, I starred in it, etc. And so I said, ‘Hey, you know, would you mind tweeting to correct this?’ And she just wouldn’t. She wouldn’t promote any of the shows, you know? And I just felt like that was unfortunate. But it didn’t make me, it didn’t change my view of her character.”

Amanda Seales

She noted that Issa also decided not to step in when Anderson attempted to tarnish Amanda’s career.