Former actress/Fox News pundit Stacey Dash went on Dr. Oz’s show this week to talk about her past addiction to prescription drugs and to claim she’s not a homophobe despite all those years she spent spewing anti-LGBTQ vitriol on television and social media.
On yesterday’s episode of “The Dr. Oz Show”, Dash shared her “deepest, darkest secret”, claiming she was addicted Vicodin, “taking 18 to 20 pills a day” at one point, and that’s what made her say such horrible things about LGBTQ people. It also nearly bankrupt her.
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“I lost everything,” she said, claiming to have blown through “about five to ten grand” a month on pills.
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Now five years sober, Dash says her recovery has made her a deeper, more thoughtful, more compassionate person.
“The greatest blessing is that not only have I been able to be honest with myself and become a better person,” she said, “I’ve been able to understand my parents and that they did love me and that they were doing the best they could and they were just sick. They were addicted.”
Now, we’re glad Dash was able to overcome her addiction and has found the courage to speak about it publicly. That definitely takes guts.
You know what also takes guts? Apologizing.
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And we don’t mean simply saying “I’m sorry” and moving on like nothing ever happened. We mean actively working to build meaningful relationships with the communities you tried to harm and learning from them. That’s something Dash has yet to do or even express any interest in doing.
“I’m not homophobic,” she claimed. “I’m not racist. I was just angry, and it benefited me.”
Here’s what Twitter has to say about it…
#staceydash is doing the going through something tour…… @DrOz
— lynda514 (@lynda514) October 14, 2021
I found your interview- self serving,
— DMala (@DMala17) October 14, 2021
So she was clean the entire time she was backing Trump🤷🏽♂️
— Jack Trippa (@tonynavajo04) October 15, 2021
Vicodin Defense. Is she trying to rebrand herself now that Trumps gone?
— g h o s t * t o a s t (@VHSMagik) October 15, 2021
Stacey Dash is on Dr. Oz crying. 🙄
— The Freckled Faced Bandit. (@MissRhonnie) October 14, 2021
Not Stacey Dash saying her republican rants were due to a pill addiction. I empathize with addiction but nah.
— Hoochie Zaddy (@StevieDwayne) October 15, 2021
Being transexual is NOT AN IDENTITY CRISIS!!! You are still awful!
— Betty G (@BettyG47314611) October 14, 2021
So yall never forgiving Stacey Dash huh 👀
— bee (@beezysaint26) October 15, 2021
Wow…so she was sober during all of the recent political “stuff” she was pushing?!?! Oh….🤦🏾♀️
— Brandi B. ✌🏾 (@MrsBrowniepoint) October 15, 2021
Anyone else watching this Stacey Dash interview on Dr. Oz? The republican checks must of dried up
— scam likely (@KarizmaLoves) October 14, 2021
Did you say transgender people have an “identity crisis?” Did I hear that right?
— c.reyes (@creyes512) October 14, 2021
No true apology or responsibility taken for all of the mistakes you’ve made. Totally self serving interview. We don’t claim you, girl. You may be pretty but BYE ✌🏼
— BlueFish1 (@fish1_blue) October 14, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
stan2015
Well Roseanne has a new black friend
Mr. Stadnick
Truly the most disingenuous apology ever and she uses Dr. OZ as her pulpit! Puts me in mind of Dan White’s Twinkie defense for killing George Moscone and Harvey Milk. It wasn’t my fault it was (add pathetic excuse here).
ScottOnEarth
I don’t trust a word this hate-filled woman says. She’s homophobic and a die-hard trump supporter. No thanks.
mostlikelytoo
It’s obvious what she’s trying to do. But if we don’t let people be sorry, even when we know they don’t mean it. If we never let them try. Then what’s the point of being human because we’re all trash in one way or another in my opinion
Heywood Jablowme
I get what you’re saying, we should be open to people improving, but the next step after “sorry” would be pretty simple. For starters she might volunteer at, for instance, a homeless shelter for LGBT youth or an ordinary gay community center. Outside her usual comfort zone, but fairly easy to do IF she really meant the apology.
JJinAus
Really? Who is the stupid she’s pitching to?
Kangol2
Is she also apologizing for all the other hateful, right-wing claptrap she spewed? This drug addiction also probably explains her disastrous marriages and relationships. The stunt of going on Dr. Oz and chalking up the homophobia and anti-LGBTQ rants to drugs suggests she isn’t truly remorseful and sorry, that apology isn’t genuine, and that this is a PR stunt. Sorry sister, try again!
Man About Town
Excuses and values aside, how does anyone take 18 to 20 Vicodins a day and stay alive?
Kanaka4127
If I take ONE I’m in a coma for ten hours.
Halfnhalf
I don’t buy it. Drugs in themselves don’t create anything, but they do amplify them. She hasn’t changed. She wouldn’t have been homo and transphobic if she wasn’t. An example some one gets drunk, but not out of it. Goes home and beats his wife. If they had never beaten their wife, then they might claim it was because he was drunk. If he beats his wife regularly, then he thinks it’s O.K. to beat his wife. The drugs never changed Stacey Dash. It’s what she actually believes. The affects of Vicodin isn’t close to the affects of alcohol. Vicodin doesn’t make your behavior get out of control, like alcohol does. “This ship don’t float!”
GrizzleyMichael
Apology not accepted bitch
wiggie
on behalf of the African-American delegation, she’s still not invited to the cookout
BaltoSteve
She would probably put raisins in her potato salad.