“I’ve realized I need to shift out of this industry,” Amanda Seales said in a candid video about her gripes with Hollywood.
says she’s ready to “shift out” of the industry after what she perceives to be continual shunning from Black Hollywood.
On Sunday, the actress and comedian took to Instagram to vent to her 2.2 million followers. “I just wanna say something. If it wasn’t for y’all, I would really think that I ain’t doin’ shit,”“And to be clear,” she continued, “I’m speaking about the Black spaces in the industry I’m in, ’cause y’all know I don’t give two damns about any of these other spaces.
This isn’t the first time Seales has accused Black Hollywood of excluding her. In 2019, she said on Instagram that she’d been kicked out of an Emmy Awards party by a publicist who worked for Rae. “For the record, I am being denied entrance to the Black people’s Emmy party,” she said in an Instagram Story, according to
“I just want to put this on record that I am literally being told, ‘You cannot get entrance into a party that Jesse Williams invited me to,’” she said at the time. “That is the only Black event for the Emmy weekend because a white woman is telling me I can’t get in. But I’m fine.”“It was a final straw, and if you’re in this town, it’s a very small town.