Created by and with Issa, Precarious followed Issa Dee, a woman about to turn 30 who is trying to figure out life in Los Angeles. It ran from 2016 to 2021 and starred Amanda as Issa’s friend Tiffany DuBois.
In the interview, Amanda said the problems began in 2019 after Issa’s publicist, Vanessa Anderson, allegedly denied him entry to an Emmys party for black performers.
Amanda said on the Shay Shay Club podcast that when she told Issa about the party a few days later, Issa recommended she and Vanessa talk. Amanda claimed that when she spoke with Vanessa, the publicist admitted that she didn’t like the actor. Amanda also accused Vanessa of starting a “smear campaign” against her after she hung up and refused to speak to Vanessa further.
“There’s a whole completely false narrative that people keep going around in circles. They keep saying, you know, that I’m this bad girl on this set, that I hurt these people on set,” Amanda said. “I just want to point out something very basic. How can I be a mean girl on a set that’s not my show? How?”
“It’s your show,” she continued, referring to Issa. “You’re my boss. I don’t even have the ability to be a bad girl here because you can fire me. There’s no way I can be a bad girl in this situation.”
Amanda said she tried to avoid speaking publicly about the experience because it was still “incredibly important” to her to “protect” Issa. “Because I know Issa is doing something in this business that so few people can do. However, there have been enough instances at this point where I should have been protected by Issa, and I didn’t. not been.”
“She didn’t empower me. She didn’t feel like I was needed,” Amanda added. “She didn’t feel like I deserved to be protected. I’m only giving part of the picture. But that was my experience. And yet, I always protected her because I had the “I felt like it was my responsibility to do it. But it’s not.”
BuzzFeed has reached out to Issa and Vanessa’s reps for comment on Amanda’s claims. In the meantime, watch the full episode here:
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