Iyanla Vanzant Reveals She Received Death Threats While On ‘Fix My Life’ + Says Viewers Would Randomly Show Up To Her Home & Call Her Cellphone For Advice: I Just Wanted To Be Free Of That

Iyanla Vanzant Reveals She Received Death Threats While On ‘Fix My Life’ + Says Viewers Would Randomly Show Up To Her Home & Call Her Cellphone For Advice: I Just Wanted To Be Free Of That

Iyanla Vanzant is opening up about some of the negative parts of being on television.

Since 2012, Iyanla Vanzant has had a TV series on OWN titled Iyanla: Fix My Life. While the popular show ultimately helped catapult the 68-year-old to widespread recognition, she decided to step away from it earlier this year after nine years of production.

During her sit-down with Tamron Hall, Iyanla spoke on some of the less-than-glamorous aspects of being on television–such as receiving death threats from dissatisfied viewers. The life coach revealed:

“I’m very sensitive to energy. Because you go into people’s homes [while on TV]–you’re in their bathroom, you’re in their kitchen–they think they know you. And they think they have a right to say certain things because we’re not clear and conscious of the energy we send out. So through the emails, through the social media, people would come into my home. I was getting death threats because they didn’t like something I said or did. And I’m like, ‘I want to be free of this. I don’t want this.’ I got death threats around certain shows, around certain issues, around things that I said.”

Iyanla Vanzant also touched on how she had to deal with some fans’ boundary issues while starring in the series:

“People would come to my home–you know, because with the internet, they can find you anywhere. They would come to my home, they would call me [saying] ‘I know you don’t know me, but I need help.’ Wait a minute, hold up! I have so many vehicles and avenues where I serve people. I’m on social media, I have classes, I teach. You don’t get to call me on my private phone at two o’clock in the morning. So I just wanted to be free of that. That was more important to me.”

You can watch the full interview down below:

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