Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness is breaking their silence on the allegations against them.
If you don’t know, back in March of 2024, an exposé was released that had some behind-the-scenes, unverified information from unnamed sources.
Three insiders called the star emotionally “abusive” and having “rage issues,” and all seven sources said the star would lash out at crew members and people who worked closely with them.
During filming, one production source said that JVN would explode at least once a week, describing the star as “a yeller.”
Now, they’re finally responding to some of these claims.
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They said on Wednesday’s episode of the “Table Manners” podcast, “There was this article that was written about Queer Eye and myself in March, but our whole Queer Eye family had first learned about this article in December.”
“I went from this bankruptcy [JVN Hair had to be sold]. Then, ‘Oh, there’s someone who’s going to write an investigative takedown, exposé piece about you that isn’t really based in reality, but can certainly have a lot of things taken out of context to make you look as bad as possible. So from January to March, I was walking on eggshells being like, ‘When is this going to happen?’ And then it finally did happen,” they said.
Jonathan added about the reaction from the public, “I think a lot of people were looking for a reason to hate me or looking for a reason to be like, ‘See, I always knew that they were a fake c-nt.’”
“My family was so supportive, and my husband and my team. But I didn’t even get on social media to look at my phone for like three weeks and anytime I tried to dip my toe in, I would immediately see something that was so intensely hurtful,” they added.
