Abby Phillip, Jillian Michaels and slavery
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I'm surprised that you’re trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and who was not,” host Abby Phillip said.
Social media users have roasted Jillian Michaels and CNN over her on-air comments about the Smithsonian and the history of slavery.
While speaking at a conference in Florida, Michaels addressed her comments on NewsNight with Abby Phillip and expanded her thoughts.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is sounding off in response to Jillian Michaels' recent claims that "less than 2% of white Americans owned slaves."
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Nikole Hannah-Jones challenges Jillian Michaels recent remarks downplaying the full scope of slavery in American history.
Among other claims, Netflix’s “Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser” alleges Michaels plied contestants with caffeine pills even though they were supposedly banned, restricted competitors’ calorie intakes to dangerously low levels, and denied medical care and medicine to some.
Bob Harper, who cohosted 12 seasons of The Biggest Loser with Michaels, said in a recent interview with The Guardian that she was not among the alums of the controversial reality competition series who reached out to him after he suffered a heart attack.