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DJ Envy has called out former co-host Angela Yee over claims she made about being the “only woman” working on The Breakfast Club during her time on the show.
His statements came after Yee’s recent interview on The Tamron Hall Show began making rounds on social media on Friday (March 3). During the interview, Yee was asked about being held to task for misogynistic statements made by her male co-hosts on the show.
In addition to sharing that she felt like she often bore the brunt of the criticism, particularly for controversial comments made by Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee told host Tamron Hall that being the only woman involved with the show’s production often put her in a precarious position as well.
“I was the only woman who worked there too, when it came to producers, camera people; and it wasn’t an easy room for me to be in,” she said. “So I feel like I did need more backup. Because even things that I felt as a woman, somebody can’t understand your point of view because they’re not coming from where you come from. And so that was hard for me too, to be the only woman there with nobody to check somebody, ‘You shouldn’t have said that like that.'”
Upon spotting a clip from the interview reposted by The Shade Room, DJ Envy hopped in the comments to denounce Yee’s remarks.
“[Cap emoji] That’s just not true,” he wrote in a first comment under the post. “[Cap emoji] There are plenty of women that work behind the scenes on @breakfastclubam.”
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