Jennie Nguyen has been slammed over a 'cringe-worthy' Instagram Live where she blamed her social media team for past racist and anti-vaxx memes that got her fired from the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
On Wednesday night, Jennie, 44, appeared with a friend named Michael, a black gay man, who insisted that the reality TV star 'is not a racist.'
However, many fans were left unimpressed as they flooded the comments raging: 'Girl did you really just pull the but I have black friends card?'
Awkward: RHOSLC's Jennie Nguyen SLAMMED for 'pulling the I have a black friend card' in cringe-worthy Instagram live where she blames her social media team for racist posts
'Here let me get my one black friend so it looks better. Girl bye,' another said, while one person commented: 'Wow!! Not the I have a black friend card… it's kinda sad.'
'Here's the reality,' her friend Michael said. 'I know Jennie and I know her character and I know the person that she is inside. She's not a racist.'
Although Jennie said she took 'full responsibility' for the posts, she appeared to try and pass the blame onto her old social media team.
Backlash: Many fans were left unimpressed as they flooded the comments raging: 'Girl did you really just pull the but I have black friends card?'
'I just want you to understand my point of view and where I come from, and what's going on during that time, I mean it's an old post on my account, it's in 2020,' she said.
'I just want you to understand, during that time I had a team of people that were helping me. Whether they post it, I post it, it doesn't really matter at this point. For me, it's on my account, and I take full responsibility and accountability for what was posted.'
She then added later: "Whether I remember the posts in 2020, I don't remember whether it's on my account or not. We don't remember what we ate yesterday, let alone two years ago. But like, again, I take full responsibility.'
Support: On Wednesday night, Jennie, 44, appeared with a friend named Michael, a black gay man, who insisted that the reality TV star 'is not a racist'
Friend: Jennie later posted this picture of herself with her friend Michael, who said on her Instagram Live that the reality star is not a racist
Some of Nguyen's original Facebook posts referred to protestors of the Black Lives Matter movement as 'thugs' and in her video, she appeared to double down on that stance.
'I don't support people that are out there burning buildings, because there are workers there. My friends [have] gone through their business being destroyed, they didn't do anything,' she said.
'We're all human, we make mistakes,' she declared at another point in the video. 'I made a mistake. And to say, this is the only mistake I made, no I make tons of mistakes in my
