Normani speaks for the first time about past racist tweets her former Fifth Harmony bandmate Camila Cabello posted.
Normani gets candid about her feelings when old racist tweets from her former Fifth Harmony bandmate, Camila Cabello surfaced online in her solo cover story with Rolling Stone magazine.
In the interview, she shared when she was in the studio with Fifth Harmony, she felt similarly disregarded, pigeonholed as “the dancer.” Sometimes, her vocals would get left off a song and it made her question her talent.
“I was devastated,” she admits to publication. “So many things start to go through your mind, like, ‘Maybe this is my fault? What could I have done differently? Am I not working hard enough? Am I not as talented? What’s wrong with my voice?’ ”After Fifth Harmony ended, RCA Records signed Normani to a solo deal and she has literally been giving us uber Beyonce vibes ever since.
Old racist Tumblr posts and tweets that used the n-word, black stereotypes, and other derogatory language posted by Camila were dug up and reposted online. After the backlash, Camila issued an apology, .
Normani was asked about the situation face-to-face during the interview, but she decided she would write out her response, so her words don’t get twisted.
“I want to be very clear about what I’m going to say on this uncomfortable subject and figured it would be best to write out my thoughts to avoid being misconstrued, as I have been in the past. I struggled with talking about this because I didn’t want it to be a part of my narrative, but I am a black woman, who is a part of an entire generation that has a similar story,” she begins, via e-mail.What hurt more is the fact that she would have came to their defense in a heartbeat, but she didn’t get that from a person she THOUGHT was a friend.
”I face senseless attacks daily, as does the rest of my community. This represents a day in the life for us. I have been tolerating discrimination far before I could even comprehend what exactly was happening,” she continues.
”Direct and subliminal hatred has been geared towards me for many years solely because of the color of my skin. It would be dishonest if I said that this particular scenario didn’t hurt me. It was devastating that this came from a place that was supposed to be a safe haven and a sisterhood, because I knew that if the tables were turned I would defend each of them in a single heartbeat,” she shares..
”It took days for her to acknowledge what I was dealing with online and then years for her to take responsibility for the offensive tweets that recently resurfaced. Whether or not it was her intention, this made me feel like I was second to the relationship that she had with her fans.”
You can read her full interview here.
Check out her video interview with the publication about her "firsts" below:
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