Nicole Curtis is finally taking a moment to say I’m sorry for her disgusting actions.
As you may know, HGTV canned the Rehab Addict star this week after footage from 2022 surfaced of her using the N-word during a renovation. After getting fired, Nicole did not address or apologize for saying the racial slur. Instead she applauded herself for the authenticity of her work instead.
Yes, really. That was her first statement rather than speaking out about the serious issue at hand.
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Now, it appears she is ready to offer up an apology. Nicole took to Instagram on Thursday night to say:
“This isn’t a post I ever thought I’d be writing and I’ve drafted this more times that I can count and nothing seems to be enough. There is anger, there is hate, there is pain. I’m here to take it. I haven’t been hiding, ignoring, waiting for this to pass. I’ve just been playing this all over and over again and watching the video and having this all out together to say the right thing, do the right thing after doing the wrongest of wrongs. I am sorry. I am filled with remorse and regret, just as much as I was one second after that word was said 4 years ago in 2022.”
The television personality insisted the footage “was stolen” before being “manipulated, edited and sold” to a tabloid in order to “create this chaos of hate, anger, disappointment” right as she was about to return to television, though.
OK, but that doesn’t change the fact she said a deeply offensive and hurtful word on camera. But Nicole insists she’s not making an “excuse” for her actions:
“I am not s victim. Nothing I say or do will take that moment 4 years ago away. I know it was wrong. This will never happen again. I want to be clear that about this ….I’m not addressing this because I was ‘caught’. Im here because I am not okay with the fact that I said that. I am and have been submerged in the African American community my entire adult life. I’m a mom of two children, I chose to live and work in the inner cities of many major cities, but most famously Minneapolis and Detroit. Yes, I hear that word on s daily basis, people say it all around me, I listen to it in music, I’m not secluded on the suburbs. I am the white, small blonde in the neighborhood who knows that’s a word that represents evil, pain, torture, trauma when used by someone like me. And yet, it came from me…..”
Nicole said she doesn’t “have an answer” as to why the word “easily” came out of her mouth, adding in the comments:
“I have disappointed so many and that includes my children who I had to tell. My youngest said ‘you don’t say that word’ and I had to say did. We found the raw footage and I will be releasing that tomorrow -my children viewed it with me and saw what happened, a mistake that I realized right away and went into panic. Not terrified this would ruin my career, no, terrified I put that terrible word into the universe. That was all my footage, my cameras, my house-it was not for HGTV, not for a show, no one would have ever seen the footage -I just didn’t want it there because it was a moment of deep regret and shame. There was no fear of network, etc. I didn’t want to ever hear me say that again -it’s that simple.”
Nicole concluded the lengthy post that “HGTV was not aware because it was shot on my own personal time” and the only ones who had the footage were herself and her ex-boyfriend.
She also promised to speak more on the controversy during a live on Friday. We’ll see what else she has to say then. Take a look at the entire apology post (below):
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